Dear Rony /Rohit, ( Both R's ........)
Shailesh here ....
IF U have difficulty reading this mail copy the entire contents and paste in gedit or Notepad for that reason
Syntaxs are important please note.... FEDORA/Red-Hat is assumed here
If U want to to go for HDD installation completely ( say No cdrom at all to boot) and no linux at all
First Boot thru Linux Rescue Disk ( a bootable Floppy available easily)
U got to mount the partition containing the images somewhere
mkdir /mnt/source # needed to mount the partition containing iso images
mkdir /mnt/cd1 # needed to mount the iso image itself
mount /dev/hd?? /mnt/source
cd /mnt/source
# Note :cd1.iso is the name of Ur firstcd image ( Say )
mount /mnt/source/cd1.iso /mnt/cd1 -o loop,ro
cd /mnt/cd1
here U will find a directory called images, do cd to that
ls boot.img
now U got to prepare Ur installation Disk , Keep a Good Floppy ready....
dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0
it will give output something like 2880 records in and 2880 records out
Note both counts should be same else there is some error while writing the floppy, change it.
IF U get both counts same U have Ur installation image ready
get out of LRD
cd /
umount /mnt/cd1
umount /mnt/source
reboot Ur Machine and boot from the newly created floppy
If every thing written above and done by U is ok U will find Redhat installer boot prompt
at boot prompt give
linux askmethod
press enter
it will boot and U will have to some inputs
After it will ask the medium U want to boot from
choose harddisk
now it will list all Ur partition
choose the partition containing the images..........
if U have kept the images in some directory do specify the same in the second field If the images are in root of the partition do not give anything here
Press enter or OK ( WHATEVER ......)
If every thing is fine " THE INSTALLATION PROCESS SHOULD BEING ........" (GOD BLESS US )
Please Forgive ME if I have left have something because I am writing this mail from my working place at about 1:30 AM ( YES A.M )
Taking help of Virtual Visual Installation in my MIND
By the way I have habit of Forgetting Things....................
If U get the installer running after this
All these keystrokes are worth the effort
else .............
whatelse..........
Put another mail buddy.............
Bye for Now,
NOT WAITING FOR UR MAIL ( Hoping U will get success ) AMEN
Shailesh
===== Technology is driving Me CRAZIER ....
But Who said I Want To Be SANE !!!!
Original Author of Signature :Shailesh.S.Mahadik (ssmahadik@yahoo.com)
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