Fedora over ubuntu

[ankittare]

hiii, i'm new to this forum. I'm currently using ubuntu only and want to install fedora 12. I have a fedora iso dvd but since my CD drive does not work i have to install it using USB. My laptop supports booting from USB. I used unetbootin(in ubuntu) to make my USB bootable. But when i start the installation it gives me an error saying image mount #1 not found on hard drive. I dont know what to do....Please Help:(

[MitraMai]

Try using unetbootin instead. It's the only usb-creator that ever worked for me with Fedora, except Fedora's own.

Unetbootin: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

[ankittare]

Try using unetbootin instead. It's the only usb-creator that ever worked for me with Fedora, except Fedora's own.
that is what i used . unetnootin available in ubuntu. is there any other one, which i can run in ubuntu because i dont have fedora installed currently

[RahulSundaram]

Hi

You can simple use dd

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB

[kai4785]

You can always use Grub to setup your installer. I've done this for a few systems that had issues booting from external media. All you need is the 'vimlinuz' and the 'initrd.img' from the bootable media (usually in /images/).

Copy those two files to your /boot folder, setup grub. I don't have a lot of experience with Ubuntu's grub config, it's very different than my regular Fedora config, so I can't write you one off the top of my head.

Try copying (or modifying) working lines in your grub config, and point the kernel to the vmlinuz file, and the initrd to the initrd.img file.

When it boots, it'll ask you how you want to install. I believe the prompt tells you that hitting 'enter' starts the graphical installer. One of the menus will prompt you for the location of your installation media (where it will get stage2.img from). This can be your USB key if you have the entire DVD unpackaged there, or you can pick an internet HTTP mirror.

[justforgetme]

Ankitare, is this a Live CD installation or an install DVD?

If I remember right the install DVD had a quirk where you had to enter / (forward slash)as a destination of the images or something like that...

[ankittare]

Ankitare, is this a Live CD installation or an install DVD?

yes its an install DVD, where exactly to put "/"? do you mean at the part where it installer asks me to specify source drive?

[justforgetme]

yep, I think that is where you have to put it..

cheers

[Simian Man]

I had problems using unetbootin with Fedora in the past and was told that it doesn't work with it any more. Now I always use Fedora's live USB creator, but I can see that would be a problem if you aren't already using some version of Fedora :). I suppose you can try installing it from source in Ubuntu from here. (https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/)

That may be harder than using Rahul's method though.