Re: file.iso

["Dominick Petracca" <dpetracca@xxxxxxxxx>]

thanks Rick.  I see how to select hard drive installation but I'm still running into problems.

Here is what I'm trying to do.

I have 1 drive on my system.  I installed RH and left a hda3 partition free to put the CD images on.

Is this possible?  What do I need to do to hda3 in order to get my iso files on it and then be able to install from it.

Right now I'm doing 'dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/tmp/install/disk1.iso' for each disk.  (does it matter what I call the ISO files?)

But that puts the iso files on my current drive which I'm going to install RH to so I need to get them onto my hda3 partition.  

I realize what I'm doing is kinda crazy but it forces me to get my hands dirty.....

On 1/26/07, Rick Stevens <rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 17:41 -0500, Dominick Petracca wrote:
> Hi, I'm just trying to practice with various redhat installs.
>
> I have the RHEL 4 CD's.
>
> I copied the CD images to my harddrive and wanted to try a hard drive
> install instead of using the CDs.
>
> To do this, I think I need a boot cd or boot floppy correct?
>
> Problem is my floppy doesn't work and my cdrom  is not a burner.
>
> Is there anyway I can download the file .iso so I can burn it on my PC
> and then use that to boot the redhat installer, which then I'm
> assuming will let me select install from harddrive?
>
> I tried booting to the install CD #1 but that goes right into
> installing from the CDs and doesn't allow me to choose install from
> harddrive as I saw in documentation
>
> Am I misunderstanding something?  Let me know if I have this right:
>
> to install from a harddrive, I have to have the CD images copied to my
> hard drive which I have.
> Then I need a boot cdrom or floppy and I can't use the actual install
> CD #1 instead.

No, you can boot off the first CD to do a disk install, but you must
have all the ISOs in a single directory and use the "askmethod"
parameter on the boot command line from the installer:

        boot: linux askmethod

The alternative method is copy the boot image from the first CD to a
flash disk and boot that.

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