November 2007
Beginner
642 pages
15h 43m
English
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16.1. Creating Network Installation Boot Media for Fedora Linux
Problem
Fedora Linux has gotten huge! Downloading the ISOs requires five CDs or a single DVD. BitTorrent or no, this is a huge download, and even the most compact installation requires packages from multiple disks. Can't you just install a minimal boot image on a CD or a USB stick, and then have the installer fetch the rest from a Fedora mirror?
Solution
You can indeed, and in fact have always been able to; however, it has not been well-publicized, so not many users know about it. You can copy a minimal boot image either to a CD or USB flash drive, boot the system, select a Fedora mirror, and then perform the installation completely over the Internet.
First, download the CD boot image or the USB media image, which you will find in the os/ directory rather than the iso/ directory of your chosen Fedora download mirror, as this example for Fedora 7 shows:
ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/images
The CD boot image is boot.iso, and the USB media image is diskboot.img.
Use your favorite CD-writing program, like K3b, to create a boot CD from the .iso image.
Use dd to copy diskboot.img to your USB stick. Warning: this overwrites the whole device. Make sure your USB stick is unmounted first, and then transfer the boot image with this command, using the correct /dev name for your own device:
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