Fedora installation

[FreshFish]

I want to install Fedora on this POS HP that we had sitting in our back room. I am wondering how much HD space will be required for this installation to make it worthwhile. This computer is very old and only have a total of 6GB, but the free partition has only 4GB so it won't handle much anything too well, but I am just looking for some extra experience with Linux as I often use it at school.

I suppose, since I am posting, that I should ask a question that I will have if I am able to install Fedora. I have Windows 95 on the system right now and I would rather have a dual boot system as opposed to reformatting (mainly because I don't have the Windows recovery disks for the HP anymore...). I was wondering if I could d/l the boot files to my HD and boot it from there? Or do I HAVE to burn then onto CD's using a different comp, then install them? Thanks a lot for any help, as I said, i am very new to dealing with the mechanics of Linux.

Fresh

 

[Cannabis]

You can download this boot.iso and use it to do a ftp install you think your competant to do so. Otherwise you will need to download all the cd's. Fedora should fit onto that partition but will leave little room other stuff.

 

[FreshFish]

Thanks a lot for the link. Though I don't really understand what that program does yet...I plan on researching it more tommorow. In the mean time: so this FTP install is the only way to install without using the boot disks? Thanks to all!

 

[Cannabis]

You burn the iso onto a cd using nero, easycd, etc. then use it boot into a linux environment that only has what it needs to download the rest of the os. When it boots it will ask you for a ftp to install from. Once you have that set up the install will go as it would from the cd's except only downloading the packages you've selected to install thus saving you some time as opposed to downloading all the cd's.