is there a way to get CD isos of Fedora 7?
Hansen
mht at alfansa.org
Fri Aug 3 03:51:27 UTC 2007
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 23:29 -0400, Arch Willingham wrote:
> In the FWIW department, I do the same thing you mention below except
> that I start with the emergency repair disk. It give you to option to
> install (GUI and text) and I just do the NFS install from there...it
> works great!
>
> Arch
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Phil
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 5:37 PM
> To: For users of Fedora
> Subject: Re: is there a way to get CD isos of Fedora 7?
>
>
> here is how you can install Fedora without a DVD player...
>
> Download the FC7 DVD iso.... extract the boot.iso from the DVD
> iso... (use your tools of choice)
>
> Create an nfs share on another system and put the FC7 DVD iso
> in that share.
>
> Burn the boot.iso to a cdrom
>
> boot the system you want to install FC7 on from the cd with
> the boot.iso image.
>
> When you are asked how you want to install choose "NFS share"
>
> Enter the ip address and directory name... and voila...
> network install of FEDORA and you did not have to expand the
> ISO to do it.
>
> Pretty cool!
>
> On 8/2/07, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 09:55 -0700, Darlene Wallach
> wrote:
> > I have a workaround to install Fedora 7 if I can get
> the
> > isos on CDs. I can only find DVD iso for Fedora 7.
> You can install f7 from the Fedora 7 Live CD.
> >
> > I would think I'm not the only person who uses
> Fedora
> > who does not have a DVD reader/burner.
> >
> > Is it now the policy of the Fedora Project to only
> > make DVD iso available for download?
> >
> > Darlene Wallach
> >
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> akonstam at sbcglobal.net
>
> --
You can use the option install from HD too, copy the .iso to certain
folder, eg. /f7 copy the isolinux folder from the .iso to /f7 too, boot
with grub and use the kernel at /f7/isolinux to boot. For detail I'm
already posting about this at another day ;-)
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Hansen
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http://teknologipraktis.org
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