Minimal Boot Media?

[Karl Larsen]

Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:28:40 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>
>   
>> Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
>>     
>>> At the Fedora project home page I click:
>>>
>>>   Get Fedora -> Network Install
>>>
>>> I find myself on a doc page.  Is this a bad link?
>>>       
>> No, I don't think so.
>>
>>     
>>> On the doc page I see a partial URL ending in boot.iso ... looks
>>> good, but where is it?  I looked for it at several mirrors, but I
>>> see only Live CD and the full DVD.
>>>       
>> That path should be good on any mirror.
>>
>>     
>>> Where is it, or should I use Live CD?  I expect that on my systems,
>>> I will not want much of what is on Live CD.
>>>       
>> I would suggest grabbing the rescuecd.  It contains what's on the
>> boot.iso plus the second stage anaconda installer, which you'll end up
>> downloading if you use the boot.iso anyway.  Another advantage to
>> using the rescuecd is that it is signed, so you can verify it's
>> integrity via gpg.  The boot.iso is not signed, and therefore you
>> can't verify it.
>>
>> As one example, the rescuecd iso can be found at:
>>
>> http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/7/Fedora/i386/iso/
>>
>>     
> [...]
>
> I got the rescuecd as suggested and booted from it on my
> laptop that has with WinXP and a free partition to be used
> for FC7.  It lists some options, but none for installing a
> new system. The option is "Install or Upgrade an existing
> system".  I do not have an existing system that I want to
> upgrade.  How do I proceed?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike.
>
>
>   
Try Install. When you get to where I talks about what to install tell it 
you want to select first. Here you can pick and choose what you want to 
load.

Karl