Problems about installing Fedora 6 from mobile hard disk

[Jane_Wien]

Windows vista is installed on my laptop, now I want to install Fedora 6, double OS.
I create a ex3 partition (40G). I don't have CD driver, so I plan to install Fedora 6 from the USB mobile hard disk. I format a 80G partition into FAT32 file system, and copy FC-6-i386-DVD.iso to it.
1. use grubinst-1.1-bin-w32-2008-01-01 to install grub in the mobile hard disk
2. copy grub4dos-0.4.4/grldr.mbr and grub4dos-0.4.4/menu.lst to mobile hard disk
3. get initrd.img and vmlinuz from FC-6-i386-DVD.iso
4. edit menu.lst, add the following:
title Fedora 6 Setup
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quietkernel
initrd /initrd.img
5. reboot
I want to boot from the mobile hard disk, but it doesn't work.
Who know how to install Fedora from usb mobile hard disk, please help me, thanks!

[mhanan]

The problem is the .iso images. These will not run directly w/o either being burnt to a disk using an ISO burning utility, or mounted to a virtual disk drive and run using a similar utility.



With an existing Windows installation already in place, and a lack of a CD drive you probably will want to look into the second option.


Virtual Disk: Mount an .ISO file without burning a disk

[Jane_Wien]

The problem is the .iso images. These will not run directly w/o either being burnt to a disk using an ISO burning utility, or mounted to a virtual disk drive and run using a similar utility.



With an existing Windows installation already in place, and a lack of a CD drive you probably will want to look into the second option.


Virtual Disk: Mount an .ISO file without burning a disk

but it's a tool that just can be used under windows and it can't be used to install Fedora.
Anyway, thanks for your attentions.

[mhanan]

If you mount it to your external drive and tell BIOS to boot from it you may be able to get it to install. If it's a USB drive you may not be able to do that... but eSATA is a possibility.

I was able to install grub using that utility on a WIN2K machine and from there install SUSE.

[Jane_Wien]

If you mount it to your external drive and tell BIOS to boot from it you may be able to get it to install. If it's a USB drive you may not be able to do that... but eSATA is a possibility.

I was able to install grub using that utility on a WIN2K machine and from there install SUSE.

I will try, thanks