On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 07:06:53PM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Proinnsias Breathnach thought:
>> Or - you can use a very neat trick Mr. Bedford noted one day - GRUB can
> boot an iso on your hard-drive ! Just download the FC3 dvd-iso and work
> from that ...
Still need to download the ISOs though. I just did a this install
without a CD. I wanted a minimal system for a web/smtp server so I wasn't
going to need all the stuff anyhow. I found the method on
fedora.redhat.com and it goes like this:
Download boot.iso from
ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/images/boot.iso
loopmount that and copy vmlinuz and initrd.img to the HD and point grub to
them. I realised I should have put them on a filesystem that wasn't going
to be wiped after the installer didn't like my HD on the first go....
Conor
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