installing FC10 from hard drive

[LinuxHippy]

I want to install FC10 from my hard drive. I did this with FC8 and this:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f8/en_US/sn-install-diff-source.html

Is this still true with FC10?

[scottro]

You could try it and see. :) The method may have changed somewhat, the installation guide for F10 gives a somewhat different method.

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f10/en_US/ap-medialess-install.html

[LinuxHippy]

got it to work following that method. It's a bit different than I'm used to. I did it by getting it to boot from my hard drive and using this grub.conf entry:

title Install Fedora Core 10
root (hd0,13)
kernel /FC10/isolinux/vmlinuz-install
initrd /FC10/isolinux/initrd.img-install

I first downloaded the DVD.iso and burned it. Than I copied those 2 install files to partition sda14 in folder /FC10.
Then the installer looked for the image file on my hard drive. So, I put the DVD.iso into that same folder.
Reboot.
Pick Install Fedora Core 10.
Once the installer starts pick hard drive as your media location. I installed from /dev/sda14 and /FC10 was the folder. It found it.
Once I had the files where the installer could find them it took 15 minutes to install 1063 packages without adding any repos.

[sideways]

The instructions on that link scottro seem out of date, in F10 you need to copy install.img to an images directory on the hard disk too.

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f10/en_US/sn-installing-from-harddrive.html

[LinuxHippy]

That's what I was thinking....mount the iso. I actually burned the iso and then copied all those files to my hard drive but could not install from those. It wanted an image file. I thought strange-so I then copied the DVD.iso to the same location and it then installed fine.

Oh, also-I used the x86_64 DVD image.

[sideways]

That's what I was thinking....mount the iso. I actually burned the iso and then copied all those files to my hard drive but could not install from those. It wanted an image file. I thought strange-so I then copied the DVD.iso to the same location and it then installed fine.

Oh, also-I used the x86_64 DVD image.

you only have to copy the file install.img to a directory called images/ in the root of the drive, then copy the dvd iso to the same root dir. I think you'll probably find that you still have the images directory with install.img in the root of sda14

[saa_1973]

The install doc does not mention that the boot files, install image and iso files should be in the same disk drive. I had not faced this issue with Fedora 9 earlier (boot files in separate disk and iso in an other disk).