cd/iso install question

[Rick Stevens]

On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 21:12 -0700, Eric John wrote:
> Youre probably going to find this hard to believe, but
> I have another question...
> 
> I bought the red hat FC2 cds but I am becoming less
> amused by the switch the cds 6 times and then abort
> the install because it has some bins or possibly libs
> it wants me to go find myself presumably on dogpile or
> somewhere, because goto totally went to shit after
> yahoo bought them.
> 
> So my question is this...  is there a way to throw the
> iso on the hd and install off of that, also I think
> someone may have pulled the old switcheroo on the cds
> because they have been out of the package maybe twice
> and 90 percent of the time it says it cant read the
> disk.

Yes, you can put all of the CDs into a directory on the HD and
use it as an installation.  This is the infamous "HD install".

Here's a link that'll help:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/x8664-multi-install-guide/s1-steps-hd-install.html

Note that the link refers to RHEL4, however it works for Fedora as
well.  If all you have available is Windows, use the "rawrite" program
to create the .iso images from the CDs.

As an aside, note that RHEL4 is based on Fedora Core 3.

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