Slightly OT: bad rap for Fedora, and realistic effects
Tim
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Mon Feb 26 09:36:40 UTC 2007
Les Mikesell
>> Download the iso images to an NFS-exported directory. Burn the first
>> disk. Boot it with "linux askmethod" at the boot prompt. Pick nfs
>> image as the install method. Fill in the info for the host and path
>> to the nfs directory where you downloaded the images. When the
>> install starts, go away and come back when it is finished. No disk
>> swapping or babysitting needed.
Dotan Cohen:
> And how am I to do that on a machine with one big NTFS partion that
> will be nuked as soon as I start the install? Remember, we're talking
> about installing over Windows machines in this thread, not reinstalls
> or upgrades.
If there's no network, and you've got one machine with a big enough
drive, pre-partition it. Leave a big space that'll you'll put your ISOs
on, after installation do something else with it. Use it for storage,
change it to being your /home partition, or whatever.
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(This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's
important to the thread.)
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