Using Fedora-10-Alpha-i386-netinst.iso

[bill.damage]

I have an 8G thumb drive and a test machine with no floppy or CD/DVD. It is networked. Back when i last did this, in the Fed 3/4/5 days, I could use a boot floppy which asked me for the location of the NFS mount holding the iso image. I'm trying to do that now having jumped right back from then to Fed 10.

So I tried to use this idea but swapping the floppy for the usb as detailed here: http://mediakey.dk/~cc/howto-install-fedora-core-5-fc5-from-a-usb-stick/. It booted ok, but all attempts to locate NFS/FTP/HTTP remote images resulted in "driver needed" messages. But then I realised that this is an 8G stick so why can't I just copy the 3.5G Fed 10 DVD iso to it? When I used fdisk to inspect this it showed half a dozen partitions of random type, so at this point I thought I'd better stop battling 5 year old installers and get with the current plan.

So that brings me to Fedora-10-Alpha-i386-netinst.iso - what exactly is this? It sounds like what I need from its name, but I'm blowed if I can find any docs on it.

To reiterate this - I don't want help setting up the usual live USB install - what I'd like is 1 mem stick which I can boot from and then start the install process, and when it asks for the iso location point to itself. Thanks!

[gundark]

I guess I have to ask, can the computer boot the USB drive? Have you looked in the bios? From my understanding because I almost used the netinst.iso it will boot of a usb drive and then you can just install. I did a similar thing with a friends computer and the alternate boot CD from Ubuntu because her machine wouldn't boot a livecd.

[bill.damage]

Hi, yes it definitely can boot , its just the which image for the installer I need. Do I need to convert the netinst.iso to a usb bootable system? How can I do this please?

[gundark]

Well, you can use whatever image you want to boot... I think. The netinst is to install everything over the network. The livecd will boot into fedora so you can make sure everything works before you install. Or the Dvd puts allot more on your computer, or at least it used to I haven't used a DVD sense fedora 5 so I am kind of out dated there. Though are you sure you want to use Fedora 10? Its alpha, so it may not be the best depending on what you look to do with it. There are lots of tutorials online on how to boot and install off a usb so try the old google.

[sideways]

The netinst.iso can be transferred to usb via livecd-iso-to-disk, but in F10 alpha it won't install from hardrive or usb stick. I tried. I don't see how it differs from the boot.iso image though, I will test it out in the beta releases.

They better get this working or I'm gonna kick up a ****storm (It works in F9 (http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=194646))

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

Did you file a bug report?