Installing Fedora from a hardrive help.

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Mon Mar 10 01:05:38 UTC 2008


Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Gareth Marsh wrote:
> 
>> What's my first step?
>> Hdd has two partitions (both ext3); the first is 100gb and the second is
>> 200gb. I'm guessing it's to get the hdd bootable so I use use grub to boot
>> the fedora iso (which will be on the second partition) and if so how do I
>> install grub under windows?
> 
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Installing-GRUB-natively.html#Installing-GRUB-natively

> I'm pretty sure grub needs a Linux system (or something like it)
> to install and run.
> 
Grub can install itself from a boot floppy. It does not need a Linux 
system, but if you want to make use of most of the features of Grub, 
you need to install it to a file system it understands.

Mikkel
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