Re: installating from iso
- From: "Aldo Foot" <lunixer@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:42:40 -0700
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 22:04 -0400, Jerry Ro wrote:
Mmm.. If I understand correctly, I am past the stage that you referred
to me
in the guide - I already have a USB stick with Live CD - I think
that's what
they suggest there?
Fair enough, but that's not what you implied in your earlier messages.
I actually want to install a fedora on part of the hard
disk. But I could maybe mount the full DVD .iso using the USB stick
live
version, after mounting the Vista partition which contains that ISO,
and run
the installation from the mounted .iso - that's what I was trying to
look
for in google. I was hoping it is possible to do that, instead of
having to
boot from the full DVD version for full installation (since I dont
have a
DVD or a 4GB USB stick...)
I still can't get my head round what you're trying to do. If you have a
Live USB stick, then why not install from that? Once you've done so, you
can easily install extra stuff from the DVD if you have it. You can even
do it from an ISO image of the DVD on your Windows partition (it'll mean
mounting the partition under Linux and using a loopback mount for the
image, but one thing at a time).
What you haven't mentioned, either because you haven't realized it's
necessary or because it's too obvious to bring up, is that you have to
partition your hard disk to add space for Linux. Don't expect to be able
to boot and run Fedora from a file in your Windows system (I think
Ubuntu supports doing this if it's what you really want, but you'd need
to ask elsewhere about that).
poc
One important bit of info:
Put the OS ISO image on a FAT32 partition. Avoid NTFS.
The install doc says that one can use an NTFS partition to store the
iso image, but
that did not work for me.
Vista is installed in an NTFS partition and you may not be able to
access the image there.
I suggest two options: (a) in your PC's hard drive, create a fat32 partition and
put the OS ISO image there, or (b) put the image in an usb hard drive, then
boot with the usb stick and select Hard Drive as the install method.
To access the OS ISO image use a relative path to its location, for example:
if the path to it is C:\mydir\fedora.iso, you use "mydir/fedora.iso"
The above is clearly outlined in the F9 documentation, section 6.2:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-installing-from-harddrive.html
I suggest you save your data from the Vista partition.
~af
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