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SearchSubmitted by mohamed_hagag on Tue, 08/02/2005 - 05:36.
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I was Have problems Installing Fedora from hard i want to do that Because I don't have any CD-ROM & I borrowed one from a frind But Many Distros can't read from it .
all U want to start installing the fedora core 3 distro from Your hard disk :
- FAT formated Floppy .
- Fedora Core 3 " FC3 " ISO Images .
- Prepartitioned HDD with the next Specs .
|--- 8 - 10 GB drive for root file system .
|--- 512 - 1024 MB drive for sawp space .
- hd_grub.img boot disk img // get it from here . http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/10.1/i586/install/images/hd_grub.img
- rawritewin.exe // get it from here . http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/mandrakelinux/official/10.1/i586/dosutils/rawwritewin.exe
- use "rawritewin.exe" to make the boot disk from "hd_grub.img" .
- put the "FC3" ISO Images in folder like this d:\fc3 or e:\fc3 don't put them on the drive you just made to install on it.
- get the kernel "vmlinuz" & the ramdisk "initrd.img" from the first iso image normaly they are in "isolinux/vmlinuz" and "isolinux/initrd.img" and put them on folder like fc3/img .
- Edit menu.lst on the boot floppy that You have made to be like this :
timeout 100 # time befor auto boot
default 0 # defualt selection
fallback 1 # i don't know
title Fedora Install # main selection
root (hd0,4) # change "4" to the partition holding ISO images normaly
c:\ = 0 , D:\ = 4 , E:\ = 5 and so on " in some cases you have to try numbers from 0 to 9 "
kernel /fc3/img/vmlinuz ramdisk_size=128000 root=/dev/ram3 acpi=ht vga=788 # the path to vmlinuz "the kernel Binary" don't use drive letters .
automatic=method:disk
initrd /fc3/img/initrd.img # the path to the initrd.img
- Reboot and boot from the Disk and when the installer ask you about the installation Method choose "Hard Drive" and choose the drive that holds the ISO images & enter the name of the folder in the blue text box.
for any informations Contact Me By Email or Messanger :
mohamed_hagag1981 at yahoo
mohamed_hagag1981 at hotmail
mohamed_hagag "at" yalla "dot" com
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Wiki not forum
The forum is for asking for technical help. What I see here is that you faced a problem and managed to solve it so you decided to share it. The forum is just not the appropiate place to put it, it should go into the Wiki so that others could edit and refine it if they will.
Another thing is that you provided contact information for those who might want to ask you. Ofcourse you are entitled to do that but it would be better if anybody who faced similiar problems would ask for your/others help in public and not privately through email so that other people later on would benefit from the open discussions.
You can always make your contact information accessible in your user profile if anybody wanted to contact you privately for personal reasons.
Thanks very much for your input anyway, it's most appreciated.
reboot
I FOLLOWED BY YOUR STEPS.AFTER THAT .THE PC REBOOT.BUT NOT INSTALL.MY HARD DISK IS 40G.
hda1:NTFS(for xp c:), hda5:fat32(for xp d:); hda6:boot(for linux), hda7:swap, hda8:ext3, hda9:fat32(for xp d:,where the ISO LCATED); hda10:ext3 menu timeout 10 default 0 fallback 1
title FC3 Install
root (hd0,8) kernel /vmlinuz ramdisk_size=128000 root=/dev/ram0 automatic=method:disk initrd /initrd.img
title Help
pause To display the help, press until you reach "HELP END"
pause .
pause Please see http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/hd_grub.cgi for a friendlier solution
pause .
pause To specify the location where Mandrakelinux is copied,
pause choose "Mandrake Install", and press "e".
pause Then change "root (hd0,0)". FYI:
pause - (hd0,0) is the first partition on first bios hard drive (usually hda1)
pause - (hd0,4) is the first extended partition (usually hda5)
pause - (hd1,0) is the first partition on second bios hard drive
pause Replace /cooker to suits the directory containing Mandrakelinux
pause .
pause HELP END
Installing Fedora Core3 from your Hard Disk
Since your iso images or in /dev/hda8 you have to mention the root as (hd0,7). The entire line should be like this: root (hd0,7) kernel /vmlinuz ramdisk_size=128000 root=/dev/ram0 automatic=method:disk initrd /initrd.img
Reinstalling packages
The instructions on how to install from the hard disk were great! I would really appreciate if you could give the instructions on how to reference the iso images when, after the installation, one needs to install packages that were not installed in the first time. It seems that the package manager expects files to be in /dev/cdrom... Would a proper mount command resolve the problem? Thanks in advance.
Paulo Abreu
Reinstalling packages
Perhaps you can try to mount fedora_core_iso_file.iso /dev/cdrom -o loop
It's just a sugestion, i have never tried it, but maybe it will help.
Bye bye
To boot FC . U will need dos
To boot FC .
U will need dosutils from redhat
Then a text based installation will start(not graphical)
U can boot redhat,fedora core and redhat based distros u will only need to copy the initrd.img and vmlinuz of that specific distro to the autoboot directory