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Downloaded Fedora Iso

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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it says its a bootable image. i don't have any disks, so what now?

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i'm getting excited about the new OS.
    lots of usage meters and stuff. will be moving to a linux/xp duel boot throughout longhorns existence.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Fedora ISOs - C'mon guysh help

    ok as i have no CDRs and no reliable DVDRs i want to boot off my slave hard disk. can i do this? what file needs to be extracted from the iso's so that the system will boot into the install program.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Have a look here

    http://imthi.com/blog/73/index.php
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    can i install fedora on an NTFS harddrive?
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    Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    TheSovereign wrote:
    can i install fedora on an NTFS harddrive?
    There's no NTFS hard drive. There are NTFS partitions. You need to make room in your hard drive for a new partition, and it won't be NTFS.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Indrid Cold wrote:
    There's no NTFS hard drive. There are NTFS partitions. You need to make room in your hard drive for a new partition, and it won't be NTFS.

    great i'm downloading partition magic. but how do i know what 'dev/hd...' is called. i've got it booting into the install ok, but i don't know how to find the name of the harddisk i'm booting from. when asked the following, the format is something like

    where are the iso images?...

    hda1
    hda2
    hdb
    hdc

    etc
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    Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    hdX where X is a letter are hard drives, cdroms etc. hdXY where Y is a number a partition in each hard drive.
    I don't know of any definite way to find out which hd is your hard drive. It might not even be hd, mine for example is sda (it's a sata). But if you see things like hda1, then it's a hard drive.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Indrid Cold wrote:
    hdX where X is a letter are hard drives, cdroms etc. hdXY where Y is a number a partition in each hard drive.
    I don't know of any definite way to find out which hd is your hard drive. It might not even be hd, mine for example is sda (it's a sata). But if you see things like hda1, then it's a hard drive.


    ok one 3/4 options i tried (all hdxy) were 'no iso's found' so i could rule them out, but on hd4 of them the installer CRASHED erg. so not sure what to do.

    what's 'mounting'
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    Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    Mounting is, in short, telling the OS in which directory to show you the files that exist in a specific device.
    I don't really know what you mean by "no iso found", everything I've installed is from a CD/DVD.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    ok last question. what file system should i format a new partition to?
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    Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    The installer should format it itself, usually it's ext3 but some distros use a different format. You shouldn't have to be asked though.
    Also sorry, I forgot you were installing fedora. I edited the reply above.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i'm installing fedora now, only burnt one cd i'm hoping i can just point the software at g:\fedora5cd2.iso
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