On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 16:00 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
At 6:54 AM -0500 6/1/05, Basil Copeland wrote:
On 5/31/05, Sam Johnson johnsonsamc@gmail.com wrote:
So, all I have to do is download the FC4 boot.iso, burn it, boot from the disc, and then what?
Also, someone mentioned a hard drive install. Seems like a good idea... How does that work?
You will still have to download the ISO's for a hard drive install. The only real advantage is that you avoid burning the iso's to cd's, and the feeding and reading of the cd's during the upgrade. You'll need to be able to access the hard drive, of course, either locally or remotely.
I tried to do a hard drive install, and ended up burning CDs anyway. Although one is supposed to be able to put the .iso's on a FAT32 volume, the installer seems only to allow paths starting with, umm, some unix path like /foo/bar/, as anything I typed had that path prefixed to it in the error message, so it seems to be impossible to refer to my C: drive.
The installer asks for a partition name and directory. So if you dumped the ISO images into C:\Fedora and C: was known to Linux as /dev/hda1, you'd tell the installer to find the ISO images on /dev/hda1 in directory /Fedora. Simple.
Paul.