Slightly OT: bad rap for Fedora, and realistic effects

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
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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