harddisk install FC (FC11 or FC12)failed

He Rui rhe at redhat.com
Mon Nov 23 07:01:34 UTC 2009


I see...so you can't use cd, dvd, or usb... Tiansworld on irc #fedora-zh 
extracted
isolinux directory of whole iso and modified grub with it for harddisk 
installation.

I'm trying to grab him here and you can also join in  #fedora-zh on 
irc.freenode.net
and chat with him.


Thanks,
He Rui

On 11/23/2009 02:34 PM, RyanYee/叶晔 wrote:
> so you use USB pen drive as your fc12.iso storage device,and boot device.
> but my laptop too old,usb boot option are not supported in my bios....
> the only choice is by hard disk or network install...too bad for me
>
> 2009/11/23 He Rui<rhe at redhat.com>:
>    
>> Hi Ryan,
>>
>> Hardware requirements of certain platform are in f12 release notes[1].
>>
>> When harddisk install, I put the images directory and dvd.iso together for
>> the installation source, and use f12 iso as boot
>> device to begin installation.
>>
>> I knew sb installing F12 in this method with 256M memory and it's
>> successful.
>>
>> Good Luck,
>> He Rui
>>
>> [1]
>> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f12/en-US/html/index.html#sect-Release_Notes-Hardware_Requirements
>>
>>
>> On 11/23/2009 09:42 AM, RyanYee/叶晔 wrote:
>>      
>>> my laptop
>>> memory :214M
>>> cpu:mobile AMD Athlon(tm)XP 1800+
>>>
>>> I have used Fedora Core a few years,cause my DVD-rom broken,
>>> I use harddisk install all the time.till FC11 ,it works well.
>>>
>>> My question is:
>>> I haved change partition (with install iso file on it) with
>>> vfat,ext3,ext4.
>>> but all failed after choose directory (install.img)?
>>>
>>> I have try NFS install FC11,it works well.
>>> so I check install.img ,it was 117M big file.I can only find FC12
>>> memory limit with
>>> graphic mode is 192M,no number for harddisk install limits,is there
>>> anybody have this experence like me.
>>>
>>> does anybody know how to harddisk install FC on such few memory PC?
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>
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