installing FC4 isos from another linux box...

[Todd Zullinger]

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bruce wrote:
> i have a cd burner on a windows box... right now i have all the iso
> files on a windows box. i can easily copy the files to the linux box
> for the install process.. i didn't want to go through the issue of
> creating all the cds if i could easily do a network install. 

That's certainly a wise thing to do, and it'll save you time and the
hassle of badly burned CDs that seem to catch a lot of people (usually
several CDs into the install, as Murphy would have it).

> is there a reasonable way to create a "boot cd" from windows, given
> that i have all the iso files?

Any decent burner software ought to be able to handle the .iso images.
But I have precious little experience with windows, so I can't
recommend any.  I don't believe that the built in burning tools do iso
files properly.

> fom your information, it appears that i could do :
>  -1) copy the 1st iso file image to a cd
>  -2) copy the rescue iso to a cd
>  -3) go through the mount process for the 1st cd, 
>      extract/copy the boot.img file to the windows box, 
>      and copy the image to a boot cd...
>
> this process would seem to get me the boot cd, which would then
> allow me to proceed.

It's more work than you need to do.  You can grab the boot cd image
(boot.iso) from the Fedora download site (or any mirror):

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/images/

On a linux box you could also mount the iso image for the first cd
directly and copy/burn the boot.iso file from there, but since it's so
small it may well be easiest to just grab it from the web. :)

> however, i would still have to figure out how to setup the NFS
> process, and would need to know how/where to copy the ISO files...

What is your existing linux box running?  Fedora or something else?

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