Installing FC from HDD image

[Ali Helmy]

On 18/04/06, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>
> Ali Helmy wrote:
>
> > Ok, so I formated a partition of my second HDD [A total of three
> > partitions on two HDDs] into FAT32, and then transferred both the
> original
> > .iso and the directory extracted from it [which i renamed FedoraDVD]
> onto
> > this partition
> >
> > Now, during installation it identifies that I have four partitions
> > /dev/
> > hda1
> > hdb1
> > hdb2
> > hdb5
> >
> > But can't seem to find the CD image on any of them... now what is going
> > wrong this time?
>
> What exactly are you using to boot the system?
> I abstracted boot.iso from the images directory on the first CD,
> and burned this to a CD;
> after booting from this, and responding "linux askmethod" to the prompt
> I was able to access the ISOs on my hard disk.
>
> Nb You have to give the directory name without any prefix,
> eg FedoraDVD not /dev/hdb1/FedoraDVD .
>
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Sorry for the VERY late reply...

I have GRUB with vmlinuz and initrd.iso to boot...

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Cheers,
     A. Helmy
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