Wish To Know The Basics of Installing/Downloading a Fedora Operating System

[Ubique Enterprises]

*Wish To Know The Basics of Installing/Downloading a Fedora Operating System
*

Hello,

I have the following request:

Background

- I have an Internet connection on a Dell Server (Home based and being used
as a stand alone machine or a 32 bit machine) having a Windows 2003
Operating System installed.

Dell Server does not have a very reliable CD/DVD burner. It can read only.
Do not know much about it.

Want to do the following

a) Download a Fedora Operating System on a folder in the hard disk. And
transfer it out of this computer to another stand alone machine which
currently has only a 256 MB RAM with the help of a pen drive/pen drive
having a 1 gb capacity. Wish to install using the pen drive after wiping out
the earlier Windows Operating Systems - Win XP installed on it.

Possible?

How?

Step- By -Step please.

Thanks.

Armoredfish

[Aldo Foot]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:08 AM, Ubique Enterprises
 wrote:
> Wish To Know The Basics of Installing/Downloading a Fedora Operating System
>
> Hello,
>
> I have the following request:
>
> Background
> I have an Internet connection on a Dell Server (Home based and being used
>
> as a stand alone machine or a 32 bit machine) having a Windows 2003
> Operating System installed.
>
> Dell Server does not have a very reliable CD/DVD burner. It can read only.
> Do not know much about it.
>
> Want to do the following
>
> a) Download a Fedora Operating System on a folder in the hard disk. And
> transfer it out of this computer to another stand alone machine which
> currently has only a 256 MB RAM with the help of a pen drive/pen drive
> having a 1 gb capacity. Wish to install using the pen drive after wiping out
> the earlier Windows Operating Systems - Win XP installed on it.
>
> Possible?
>
> How?
>
> Step- By -Step please.

Step-by-Step is a lot to ask from a list where people help voluntarily.
You're expected to make an effort.

This was discussed very recently in this list, see this link.
http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg18179.html

~af

[g]

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Aldo Foot wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:08 AM, Ubique Enterprises
>  wrote:
> > Wish To Know The Basics of Installing/Downloading a Fedora Operating System

<snip>
> > Step- By -Step please.
>
> Step-by-Step is a lot to ask from a list where people help voluntarily.
> You're expected to make an effort.

ubique,

check links in my sig, 'learn linux'. after that,
have a look at *fedora project guidelines*.

hth
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learn linux:
'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition'   http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz
'The Linux Documentation Project'   http://www.tldp.org/
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[Fred Silsbee]

--- On Wed, 10/29/08, Ubique Enterprises  wrote:
> From: Ubique Enterprises 
> Subject: Wish To Know The Basics of Installing/Downloading a Fedora Operating System
> To: [e-mail]
> Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 11:08 AM
> *Wish To Know The Basics of Installing/Downloading a Fedora
> Operating System
>
> Hello,
>
> I have the following request:
>
> Background
> I have an Internet connection on a Dell Server (Home
>
> based and being used
> as a stand alone machine or a 32 bit machine) having a
> Windows 2003
> Operating System installed.
>
> Dell Server does not have a very reliable CD/DVD burner. It
> can read only.
> Do not know much about it.
>
> Want to do the following
>
> a) Download a Fedora Operating System on a folder in the
> hard disk. And
> transfer it out of this computer to another stand alone
> machine which
> currently has only a 256 MB RAM with the help of a pen
> drive/pen drive
> having a 1 gb capacity. Wish to install using the pen drive
> after wiping out
> the earlier Windows Operating Systems - Win XP installed on
> it.
>
> Possible?
>
> How?
>
> Step- By -Step please.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Armoredfish

buy a reliable DVD burner (necessary these days Sony $50)
download Fedora 9 for your computer type 32 or 64, 686?
check sha1sum
burn the dvd
reboot to the dvd

if you can boot to the flash memory stick (4+ gig) no need to burn the dvd.

I just saw a Corsair 64 gig at Fry's electronics for $139

32 gig going for less
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[Marko Vojinovic]

On Wednesday 29 October 2008 11:08, Ubique Enterprises wrote:
> a) Download a Fedora Operating System on a folder in the hard disk. And
> transfer it out of this computer to another stand alone machine which
> currently has only a 256 MB RAM with the help of a pen drive/pen drive
> having a 1 gb capacity. Wish to install using the pen drive after wiping
> out the earlier Windows Operating Systems - Win XP installed on it.
>
> Possible?

"Anything is possible, if you push the gas pedal hard enough" :-)
> How?

I suppose there are multiple ways to do this, but I would consider downloading 
the Fedora Live (or Fedora KDE Live) iso image which fits on a good old 700MB 
cd. Use the pen drive to transfer it to any computer which can burn cds (I 
can't find one that still cannot do this...). Burn the image, then take it to 
your computer and install.

Or you might install from the pen drive itself, but that is more complicated.
> Step- By -Step please.

This is just an outline of the step-by-step instructions. I assume you are 
capable of handling the details.

1) download Fedora 9 Live iso image
2) copy the .iso file to the pen drive
3) go to the nearest shop and buy an empty cd (or rather two, for safety)
4) go to the nearest internet caffe and burn the image from the pen drive to 
the cd.
5) there is a catch in step 4, don't burn the .iso file to the cd, but rather 
burn *its content* to the cd. Use the second cd if you already did this 
wrong, have the local admin help you if you don't know what you are doing
6) take the cd to your computer and boot it using the cd. When the install 
starts, be sure to perform the "check media" step before continuing.
7) Educate yourself about Fedora, Linux, computers in general. It will prove 
useful later in life.

HTH, :-)
Marko

[Rick Stevens]

Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 October 2008 11:08, Ubique Enterprises wrote:
> > a) Download a Fedora Operating System on a folder in the hard disk. And
> > transfer it out of this computer to another stand alone machine which
> > currently has only a 256 MB RAM with the help of a pen drive/pen drive
> > having a 1 gb capacity. Wish to install using the pen drive after wiping
> > out the earlier Windows Operating Systems - Win XP installed on it.
> >
> > Possible?
>
> "Anything is possible, if you push the gas pedal hard enough" :-)
> > How?
>
> I suppose there are multiple ways to do this, but I would consider downloading 
> the Fedora Live (or Fedora KDE Live) iso image which fits on a good old 700MB 
> cd. Use the pen drive to transfer it to any computer which can burn cds (I 
> can't find one that still cannot do this...). Burn the image, then take it to 
> your computer and install.
>
> Or you might install from the pen drive itself, but that is more complicated.
> > Step- By -Step please.
>
> This is just an outline of the step-by-step instructions. I assume you are 
> capable of handling the details.
> download Fedora 9 Live iso image
> copy the .iso file to the pen drive
> go to the nearest shop and buy an empty cd (or rather two, for safety)
> go to the nearest internet caffe and burn the image from the pen drive to
>
> the cd.
> 5) there is a catch in step 4, don't burn the .iso file to the cd, but rather 
> burn *its content* to the cd. Use the second cd if you already did this 
> wrong, have the local admin help you if you don't know what you are doing
> 6) take the cd to your computer and boot it using the cd. When the install 
> starts, be sure to perform the "check media" step before continuing.
> 7) Educate yourself about Fedora, Linux, computers in general. It will prove 
> useful later in life.

Or read the real, honest installation guide at

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/

That should answer all questions.
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