3.6. Preparing for a Hard Drive Installation
Hard drive installations require the use of the ISO (or DVD/CD-ROM) images. An ISO image is a file containing an exact copy of a DVD/CD-ROM image. After placing the required ISO images (the binary Fedora DVD/CD-ROMs) in a directory, choose to install from the hard drive. You can then point the installation program at that directory to perform the installation.
To prepare your system for a hard drive installation, you must set the system up in one of the following ways:
Note
The Fedora installation program has the ability to test the integrity of the installation media. It works with the CD / DVD, hard drive ISO, and NFS ISO installation methods. We recommend that you test all installation media before starting the installation process, and before reporting any installation-related bugs (many of the bugs reported are actually due to improperly-burned CDs). To use this test, type the following command at the boot:
prompt:
linux mediacheck
Additionally, if a file called updates.img
exists in the location from which you install, it is used for updates to anaconda
, the installation program. Refer to the file install-methods.txt
in the anaconda
RPM package for detailed information on the various ways to install Fedora, as well as how to apply the installation program updates.