file.iso

[Dominick Petracca]

thanks Rick.  I see how to select hard drive installation but I'm still
running into problems.

Here is what I'm trying to do.

I have 1 drive on my system.  I installed RH and left a hda3 partition free
to put the CD images on.

Is this possible?  What do I need to do to hda3 in order to get my iso files
on it and then be able to install from it.

Right now I'm doing 'dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/tmp/install/disk1.iso' for each
disk.  (does it matter what I call the ISO files?)

But that puts the iso files on my current drive which I'm going to install
RH to so I need to get them onto my hda3 partition.

I realize what I'm doing is kinda crazy but it forces me to get my hands
dirty.....

On 1/26/07, Rick Stevens <rstevens at vitalstream.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 17:41 -0500, Dominick Petracca wrote:
> > Hi, I'm just trying to practice with various redhat installs.
> >
> > I have the RHEL 4 CD's.
> >
> > I copied the CD images to my harddrive and wanted to try a hard drive
> > install instead of using the CDs.
> >
> > To do this, I think I need a boot cd or boot floppy correct?
> >
> > Problem is my floppy doesn't work and my cdrom  is not a burner.
> >
> > Is there anyway I can download the file .iso so I can burn it on my PC
> > and then use that to boot the redhat installer, which then I'm
> > assuming will let me select install from harddrive?
> >
> > I tried booting to the install CD #1 but that goes right into
> > installing from the CDs and doesn't allow me to choose install from
> > harddrive as I saw in documentation
> >
> > Am I misunderstanding something?  Let me know if I have this right:
> >
> > to install from a harddrive, I have to have the CD images copied to my
> > hard drive which I have.
> > Then I need a boot cdrom or floppy and I can't use the actual install
> > CD #1 instead.
>
> No, you can boot off the first CD to do a disk install, but you must
> have all the ISOs in a single directory and use the "askmethod"
> parameter on the boot command line from the installer:
>
>         boot: linux askmethod
>
> The alternative method is copy the boot image from the first CD to a
> flash disk and boot that.
>
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