Minimal Boot Media?
Mike - EMAIL IGNORED
m_d_berger_1900 at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 11 20:16:35 UTC 2007
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:28:40 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
>> At the Fedora project home page I click:
>>
>> Get Fedora -> Network Install
>>
>> I find myself on a doc page. Is this a bad link?
>
> No, I don't think so.
>
>> On the doc page I see a partial URL ending in boot.iso ... looks
>> good, but where is it? I looked for it at several mirrors, but I
>> see only Live CD and the full DVD.
>
> That path should be good on any mirror.
>
>> Where is it, or should I use Live CD? I expect that on my systems,
>> I will not want much of what is on Live CD.
>
> I would suggest grabbing the rescuecd. It contains what's on the
> boot.iso plus the second stage anaconda installer, which you'll end up
> downloading if you use the boot.iso anyway. Another advantage to
> using the rescuecd is that it is signed, so you can verify it's
> integrity via gpg. The boot.iso is not signed, and therefore you
> can't verify it.
>
> As one example, the rescuecd iso can be found at:
>
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/7/Fedora/i386/iso/
>
[...]
I got the rescuecd as suggested and booted from it on my
laptop that has with WinXP and a free partition to be used
for FC7. It lists some options, but none for installing a
new system. The option is "Install or Upgrade an existing
system". I do not have an existing system that I want to
upgrade. How do I proceed?
Thanks,
Mike.
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