Installing from hard drive in steps

[liniol]

hi I'm new to linux and all, but a friend asked me to try out Fedora.
I downloaded the Fedora Core#1 project and tried to install from the cdrom. The prob is that the cdrom drive freezes after a while (after boot:[ENTER]). This is what it says..:

trying to remount root filesystem read write.. done
mounting /tmp as ramfs... done
running install...
runnning /sbin/loader

so then nothing happens and the cd stops loading.:confused:
Now i want to try installing through a hd install, i made the images on my HD (NTFS 40 GB, 10GB free, not partitioned).
Now i would like to know:
- how to make a boot floppy disk (in WinXP)
- what the command line should be to start the install from the hd (hda), (so that i kan start a partition and install onto the pc).

thankyou all,
LinioL

[ilja]

Originally posted by liniol
so then nothing happens and the cd stops loading.:confused:
Now i want to try installing through a hd install, i made the images on my HD (NTFS 40 GB, 10GB free, not partitioned).
Now i would like to know:
- how to make a boot floppy disk (in WinXP)

with http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite.htm
you can also download it here : http://www.tux.org/pub/dos/rawrite/
Bootdiskimage might be here : ftp://installc1.rz.rwth-aachen.de/export/redhat/fedora-1/cd1/images/bootdisk.img i'm not sure whether you can download it, if you are not in a German net.

Originally posted by liniol
- what the command line should be to start the install from the hd (hda), (so that i kan start a partition and install onto the pc).

thankyou all,
LinioL
As I can remember it asks where to find the base files. Than you can enter the path on your PC.

[Jman]

rawwrite, used to make boot floppys, is also available in the dosutils directory of CD1. This Red Hat install guide (http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/s1-steps-install-cdrom.html#S2-STEPS-MAKE-DISKS) is still relevant. You can run it from a Windows text prompt: C:\> d:
D:\> cd \dosutils
D:\dosutils> rawrite
Enter disk image source file name: ..\images\bootdisk.img
Enter target diskette drive: a:
Please insert a formatted diskette into drive A: and
press --ENTER-- : [Enter]
D:\dosutils>

The installer does ask where to install from. Unfortunately, the hard drive option only reads ext2, ext3, or fat (http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/s1-begininstall-hd.html), not ntfs.

Test your CDs by running linux mediacheck at the install prompt.