How to install linux off your hardrive

[gwarbot]

I downloaded red hat fedora 4, and was wondering if I can install it off my hardrive.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: gwarbot
I downloaded red hat fedora 4, and was wondering if I can install it off my hardrive.

No way that I know of...you'd need something to trick the system to boot from the ISO file on the hard drive.

 

[gwarbot]

I wonder Is there a virtual drive that will run off my bios?

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Mandriva provides a way, but I don't know about Fedora Core. You have to extract the CDs/DVD content to a FAT32 partition and use a special boot image (floppy/CD). Worked great for me several times.

 

[P0ldy]

I've seen how to do this before. I think you burn a net install CD and point the dir to it. Google it.

 

[Zelmo3]

Are you talking about installing it without using a boot CD? The only downloads I see on the Fedora site are iso images, and those are meant to be burned to a disc to make a bootable stup CD that will install the whole system.

If you don't have a CD burner or bootable CD-ROM drive then you can try extracting the iso file and looking in the /boot directory for a floppy boot image. Once you boot from that floppy then you should have the option of installing from a local filesystem, and you can tell it where the extracted files are.

 

[gwarbot]

Thank you, I went out and bought a burner burned the images and now I have FC4 on my pc.