installing fedora how

You should be able to find definitive details on the redhat and-or fedora web site (if they are different). In the mean time, a couple of ideas:

IIRC, the later HatRed releases could be installed from hard disk. I know the recent Mandr{ake,iva} releases allow that. However, you're probably going to have to boot from something in the way of CD, floppy, or other external media. Can you borrow a CD drive just to boot up the installer? Can your BIOS boot from a USB thumb-flash drive? On MandrX, the smallest image for hard disk installation is called boot.iso and is about 8-9MB in size. It wouldn't surprise me if Fedora was similar.

In the early days of hard disk installation, it was necessary to unpack the ISO contents (using the loopback filesystem). More recently, I hear the installers can use the ISO files directly, but I have not tried it myself. One thing that will be necessary is for the ISO files (or their unpacked contents) to be on a parbreastion that is not formatted and overwritten by the installation process. If you havehome on its own parbreastion and preserve it across installation, that ought to suffice. (YMMV...)

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