How to install FC2 test3 from harddisk

[aubrey]

I extracted the first ISO of FC2, and No dosutils subdir found.
So I don't know how to install FC2 from harddisk.
Any suggestion will be welcome. thank you!

[jx3000]

Me too. I want to know this.

FC2 has the same file in images directory, diskboot.img. But that image is designed only for USB disks.

What happens for people who wish to install the way aubrey and I do?

I tried the FC1 diskboot.img, but it gave me an error message because that disk only looks for FC1 install media.

[jx3000]

I found this.
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread/t-287.html

I am going to try it.

[jx3000]

I tried it but when I came to the screen where I tell it the partition and directory it didn't work.

I have the iso's in a fedora2 directory, this is located on /dev/hda9 which is fat32

The only available partition in the list is /dev/hda1 which is my other fat32 partition. It didn't even detect my existing linux partitions!!!

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/figs/begininstall/hd.png

So I copied the iso's to hda1.

For Directory holding images I type "fedora2".

It gives me an error prompt that says that is can't find the cd images at /tmp/hdimage/fedora2

I can't remember exactly if it says hdimage in the path, but it is something like that.

I wish the fedora people created a floppy boot image. :( it is needed.

Is it because the kernel is becoming too big. I noticed the same with KNOPPIX 3.4. There was no floppy boot image.

[aubrey]

1, create a new directory named "install" (any you like).
2, copy the two files,FC2disk1/images/pxeboot/ "vmlinuz" and "initrd.img" into the dir made in step 1.
3, copy a LOADLIN.EXE (for dos edtion, available in other distributions of linux) into the some dir.
4, in the some dir, create a Batch File named "install.bat" that contains this line:
loadlin vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=9216 %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

Now boot your system into DOS mode, enter the "install" directory, type "install" to run "install.bat" which could launch the installing process. Just follow the screen, and enjoy yourself!

[jx3000]

That didn't work either.

The exact same problem as before occurred.

When I get to this screen,
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/figs/begininstall/hd.png

It doesn't detect all partitions.

[jx3000]

Is it possible to start the install from within FC1?

But then be given the choice to wipe out the partition with FC1?

[aubrey]

I have already installed it by this way. And now I'm enjoying it.
Good luck.

[jx3000]

I tried an FC1 boot disk and then pointed to my FC1 ISO files. It worked perfectly and detected all my partitions.

Maybe this is a bug with FC2?

I will have to test it again with a different partition layout sometime in the future.

Thanks for your help anyway, now I know at least two ways of performing this type of install :)

[wsnam]

Thank You VERY MUCH!!!

[wsnam]

Thank you very much !!!