Steps to install Fedora 7 using a USB external hard disk on i386 system without DVD Drive

[Charles Curley]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 01:13:10PM +0200, ay0my wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As we know, the Fedora 7 ISO image only comes in DVD format. For
> those that would like to install/upgrade to Fedora 7 but without a
> DVD drive, I did the external USB hard disk install since most of us
> should have an external hard disk or can easily borrow from a
> friend.

Very nice. Thank you. One point:

> 
> The steps are as follows.
> 
> (1) Download both "F-7-i386-rescuecd.iso" and "F-7-i386-DVD.iso"
> from any of the mirror site.

I believe that the rescue CD iso is also in /images in the DVD
iso. See the README there for more information. I use boot.iso in that
directory. To retrieve it without burning a DVD (rather the point of
the exercise), mount the DVD ISO via the loopback device.

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