Fedora 8 ISO HD installation help plz

[binodbdrchand]

comp has no CD/DVD drive
HD with two partitions
C:\ has windows xp
fedora8.iso in C:\
trying to install to D:\

here's some steps i performed thanks to some help file

1. extracted vmlinuz & initrd.img to C:\boot (had to create boot dir)
2. downloaded grub4dos 0.4.1
3. extracted \boot\grub to C:\boot & grldr to C:\ from the above
4. edited C:\boot\grub\menu.lst
title Install Fedora8
kernel(hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz
initrd(hd0,0)/boot/initrd.img
5. saved edited menu.lst to C:\ and the original dir
6. created C:\boot.ini (there was none before) & added
C:\grldr="Start GRUB"
7. reboot & the comp says INVALID BOOT.INI loading C:\Windows

What am I missing? Help will be appreciated.

Related Problem:
I can boot with grubinst1.0.1 but it will not find Fedora8.iso in C:\ ???

[sideways]

the iso image needs to be on something like vfat, ext2 or ext3 partition, ntfs isn't allowed

[stoat]

Originally Posted by binodbdrchand

7. reboot & the comp says INVALID BOOT.INI loading C:\Windows

What am I missing? Help will be appreciated.

Hello binodbdrchand,

I am commenting only on the XP part of your question. I think you busted your XP system by destroying its boot.ini when you did this...

Originally Posted by binodbdrchand

6. created C:\boot.ini (there was none before) & added
C:\grldr="Start GRUB"

The boot.ini file for XP is a hidden system file. XP Setup always creates a boot.ini file, and I believe you just did not see it and overwrote it. Even though XP is technically capable of booting without a boot.ini file, it will not boot with a bad one. I think you may need to recreate your boot.ini file for XP to boot normally again. You can do that either by hand if you know how, or with the bootcfg command in the XP Recovery Console.

[binodbdrchand]

Thank you so very much for the inputs. Yes, i did screw the original boot.ini file & yes the ISO image was on NTFS. I restored the original boot.ini file and edited that & I moved the ISO to a FAT32 partition and it worked like a charm.