booting from DVD image on hard drive partition

[Andras Simon]

2012/3/22, Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Andras Simon wrote:
>
>> 2012/3/22, Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> #The /boot/f15x directory is where I extracted the vmlinuz
>>> #and initrd.img files from the isolinux directory on
>>> #the iso image, and /zooty/salvage/iso-images/Fedora-15-Beta-x86_64-DVD/
>>> #is the directory where I saved the iso image (where
>>> #the /zooty mountpoint mounts a partition with the label ZOOTY).
>>
>> Just a shot in the dark: aren't you by any chance trying to install
>> 64-bit Fedora on a 32-bit computer?
>
> No. I'm using Fedora-16-i386-DVD.iso and files from it.

OK, so the directory name Fedora-15-Beta-x86_64-DVD above is accidental.
Too bad. It would've been a nice and easy solution.

Andras