Is this possible.

[MorphingDragon]

Okay, so I'm two hours away from a computer with a working DVD drive and 4+ GB F3ash dr5ves. But with a week left I want to write up a F14 version of my guide (plus some extras).

Is it entirely possible, to put the ISO image onto an HDD partition in windows and boot it like that? Ive tried a variant of the flash drive technique but thats not working.

[Lebenskuenstler]

Hii,


well I guess no.

If your purpose is just to boot up the installation process, to do this:

Get the install.img, vmlinuz and initrd (http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/...6/os/isolinux/ AND http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/...386/os/images/ and place all this to /boot/ and make an entry in grub.conf.
Code:

title Fedora 12 (New installation)
kernel /vmlinuz
initrd /initrd.img

This will start the installation process and perform a netinstall.

[stevea]

Look into the kexec command. It's a fairly new feature that allows you to boot a new kernel from the current one. You can set the kernel args as you please.

Here is another idea. You can boot the Cd image and install it into a real partition using KVM and.or probably other virtualizations. I assume some Win virtualization can permit this.

[katestevedip]

I have got this error while running yum -y update

Updating : 7:squid-3.1.8-1.fc12.i686 1/2
Error unpacking rpm package 7:squid-3.1.8-1.fc12.i686
warning: /etc/logrotate.d/squid created as /etc/logrotate.d/squid.rpmnew
warning: /etc/squid/errorpage.css created as /etc/squid/errorpage.css.rpmnew
warning: /etc/squid/errorpage.css.default saved as /etc/squid/errorpage.css.default.rpmsave
warning: /etc/squid/squid.conf created as /etc/squid/squid.conf.rpmnew
warning: /etc/squid/squid.conf.default saved as /etc/squid/squid.conf.default.rpmsave
error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/squid/errors/sr: cpio: rename
7:squid-3.1.0.14-1.fc12.i686 was supposed to be removed but is not!

Failed:
squid.i686 7:3.1.8-1.fc12

This results in failing update. Can anyone guide why this is happening ?

[mwesten]

I just wrote something up for this in Guides & Solutions. Enjoy.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=253292