Install without CD-ROM
Aleksandar Milivojevic
amilivojevic at pbl.ca
Wed Feb 23 14:52:40 UTC 2005
Abhik Das wrote:
> How can we install Fedora core 2 / 3 without burning iso images to CD?
I guess you simply want to avoid downloading 2-3GB of ISO images?
You can install over the network directly from Fedora download server or
any of the mirrors (preffered). You'll need to burn rescue CD (~80 meg,
should be fast to download, good thing to have handy anyhow). Another
option is to have a machine capable of booting from USB memory device
(such as "usb keys"), than you can download image similar to floppy
image, place it onto usb memory device (using dd) and boot from it.
As soon as you get first Fedora splash screen, on boot prompt type
"linux askmethod". Boot loader will load the kernel, than Anaconda
installer will start, and will ask you what installation method you wish
to use. It will also ask you to configure your ethernet card (either
static config or DHCP can be used). For network installs, you can
choose between NFS, FTP, and HTTP. Choose FTP or HTTP (NFS is mostly
usefull if you have local copy of Fedora install tree exported over NFS)
and when asked just point it to your favorite Fedora mirror. For
example, if Fedora installation tree is located at
http://foo.bar.com/mirrors/fedora/3/i386/os/, than you would provide
this to Anaconda:
host: foo.bar.com
dir: /mirrors/fedora/3/i386/os
Check http://fedora.redhat.com/ for list of mirror sites, and choose the
one closest to you. All of them should have i386 directory somewhere,
each with os and iso subdirectories. Installation tree is under os
subdirectory.
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