Jason Montleon wrote:
Yes you can, and yes it works well. I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 with
a completely dead cd-rom drive. Despite that I am able to boot the
machine and install Fedora on it. Obviously without a CD-ROM drive I
need a completely alternate boot method. Enter this image:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/images/diskboot.img
This may come in useful for you, if you are having trouble even
booting from CD. Use dd or rawrite to put the image on a USB pen
drive, or something similar (in my case a second HDD in the Media Bay
since the Inspiron 8000 is incapable of booting to USB....) and you
can start the install and go about it by any means necessary.
eg if you already have a booting linux system with grub, get/copy:
diskboot.img and memdisk and setup grub by adding (from memory):
title fedora-install
kernel /memdisk/memdisk #which is often /boot/memdisk/memdisk (you
need to get this as well)
initrd /memdisk/diskboot.img #ditto
and use eg hard disk file location
eg2:
if you have an internal server that you can put tftp + dhcp server on,
use the pxeboot:
vmlinux
initrd.img
and some config (found elsewhere).
eg3 if the CD work enough to boot:
: linux text askmethod
and choose ftp straight from download.fedora.redhat.com and the
appropriate architecture path.
(although, text mode install fails during retrieving package info at the
moment. - for me! see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=176492)
DaveT.
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