On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 6:04 PM, Jerry Ro <jerrro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Mmm.. If I understand correctly, I am past the stage that you referred to me > in the guide - I already have a USB stick with Live CD - I think that's what > they suggest there? I actually want to install a fedora on part of the hard > disk. But I could maybe mount the full DVD .iso using the USB stick live > version, after mounting the Vista partition which contains that ISO, and run > the installation from the mounted .iso - that's what I was trying to look > for in google. I was hoping it is possible to do that, instead of having to > boot from the full DVD version for full installation (since I dont have a > DVD or a 4GB USB stick...) > > Thanks for your answer. > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 21:04 -0400, Jerry Ro wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I thought I would try installing Fedora 9. Unfortunately, my laptop >> > has no optical drive. >> > I made a bootable USB stick, and like I said, I manage to boot from >> > it, but the fonts are corrupt. >> > Still, I can move to text mode (say ctrl-alt-f1) and use the Live >> > version quite well. >> > >> > Since I have Vista, I thought I might have an easier way of installing >> > Fedora without having a DVD. I thought of downloading the ISO and then >> > looking for a boot loader or something of that sort that can "boot" >> > from an .iso file (on a windows partition.) >> > I know one can mount an .iso on linux to a directory, so I see no >> > reason why a boot loader could not do something like that as well. >> >> Because it's a completely different situation. You're asking for the >> boot loader to understand the Windows filesystem so it can find the iso >> file. >> >> > However, I did not manage to find something to allow me to do that. >> > Looking on google leads to all kind of "hints" that it is possible to >> > somehow install fedora using the DVD .iso (on the Vista partition) or >> > from the Live CD on a USB stick (without being connected to the >> > internet), but nothing explicit. Anyone has experience with it? Also, >> > I hope Fedora 9 installation will make it easy to create a new >> > partition for it (or maybe I should first deal with using gparted to >> > prepare a partition properly)... >> >> Have you read the Fedora Installation Guide? There's a section >> specifically about installing from USB media: >> >> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/install-guide/f9/en_US/sn-making-media.html#id325326 >> >> poc Try Unetbootin: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
