Fedora Installation :: Doing A Network Installation From Usb Drive?
Sep 20, 2010
We've just taken delivery of a new CD/DVD-less Acer PC. I need to install Fedora 12 on it.I've created a bootable usb drive using netinst.iso and it begins the installation. I was expecting it to ask me where to find the installation media on the network (I have a local repository on an intranet server with a copy of the F12 orginal DVD package set and a mirror of the updates repo).Instead, I get an error saying that it cannot find the installation, yet it never asks where to look.
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Apr 21, 2010
I'm trying to install fedora with the live cd into my windows machine. When i get to the select drive nothing can be selected.
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Nov 30, 2010
I downloaded the iso file from fedora's official site and copied the iso to my pendrive to be able to install Fedora through pen drive i downloaded Universal-USB-Installer-1.8.1.5 and used it locate the iso file in my pen drive after Universal-USB-Installer-1.8.1.5 did its job, i booted my pc and proceeded to the installation there was a 'install on hard disk option' and chose it it asked me for a new password, my location etc. but when i chose the install option it prompted me an error saying that i dun have enough space to install fedora.how do i locate my drive during installation , so that i cud install it on my desired drive.it shows me two options, one is the pendrive while the other is "AMD something."(dun remember the exact name") whenever i select on the AMd.it gives me an error saying that i dun have enough space..
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Dec 30, 2010
I suggested for my friend to install ubuntu on her new pc because she does not have access to a Windows disk. I am somewhat familiar with Linux but I have never actually used it. She says she made the install disk and installed ubuntu just fine. When she went to intall her wireless network card cd it would not work. Please tell me what to do so I can instruct her on how to set these up to make them work.
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Mar 30, 2011
i have installed fedora 14 with so many libraries ,development tools installed on my pc but i usually have to present some projects which can run on my system .........and can't be executed or compiled due to absence of libraries and tools there so, i there some way to so that i can use this current installation on my hard drive of my pc to some external media like external hard disk and plug and use that installation anywhere on any system..
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Dec 9, 2009
I am trying to do PXE boots for some servers w/o DVD/CD drives. I can do the PXE boot and load the installer boot image, but from there, I would like to have the installation media be from the internet, rather than a locally mounted disc. The boot installer will ask for the location (http or ftp), so is there one out there somewhere?
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Apr 20, 2010
I'm trying to do a fresh install of fedora 12 on a Dell optiplex 380, using the fedora 12 i686 DVD. During the installation process I get a network driver installation error shown below. Anyone know how to resolve this?
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Aug 26, 2009
I had F10 installed, then was tempted to download F11 (Leonidas). I was not happy with the OS, so I reinstalled F10.Now I cannot get my CD-RW Drive or DVD Rom Drive to operate fully. I can open documents saved in a CD but I cannot get any sound from music discs.They were working in the first F10. The icons are showing in "Computer" and appear ok in the Bios. I have tried disconnecting them both, rebooting, then reconnecting, without success. The details are:- Lite-on-CD-RW Drive & DVD Rom Drive unit- Pioneer.
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Oct 20, 2010
I downloaded the Fedora live dvd iso file, burned it to a dvd. I was wondering if I forgot to do something or did I do something wrong. When I try to install from the dvd I get this error message, isoLinux: Disk error 80 , AX = 42A7 , drive 9F Boot Failed: press key to retry When I press a key to retry I get the same error. I also tried to install virtual pc and get not boot disk found.
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Aug 13, 2010
Whenever I'm dealing with large numbers of computers that need to have identical windows installations put on them, I love using Symantec/Norton Ghost to image the NTFS partition (just making the .gho file the size of the disk I've used, instead of the 160/320GB full volume size), and then uploading it automatically to a windows share.I'd love to be able replicate this exact process with Ubuntu. I have one computer that's ready to go, and a few dozen more that I'd like to quickly get that same image on.
I've heard that there's a command called dd that can make disk images, but I'd really like some sort of boot disk that can allow me to make an image, save it, then run the boot disk on another computer to allow me to reconnect to the server and dump that image on that computer. Ghost 4 Linux doesn't have a network/server component, I think.even if such solutions cost money, I'd love to know if they exist or not.
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Aug 27, 2011
I'm trying to install using the Fedora-15-i386-DVD.iso image off the a hard drive.I followed the instructions "Preparing for a Hard Drive Installation". I did the mount and copy as instructed but there is not an install.img or a product.img files as the instructions said there should be.What I have is this:
[root@bugs iso]# ls
Fedora-15-i386-DVD.iso images
[root@bugs iso]# cd images
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May 29, 2011
i'm doing a fresh network install of f15 from a usb stick. the installation has now been stuck on the "retrieving installation information for fedora 15 - i386" stage for over an hour. on previous releases this stage has only taken a few mins. i can see from my router that there have been thousands of packets sent and received from the laptop. i've searched all the normal places but can't find anyone else reporting this. does anyone know if this is a known bug (and if there is a fix) or if this stage takes significantly longer in f15 to any previous release ? cheers.
---------- Post added at 07:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:12 PM ----------
finally got to the next stage after nearly two hours. no idea why it took so long.
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Sep 28, 2009
I have a Western Digital Pasport 320 GB hard drive. I wanted to create a live installation on it like a USB stick. I wanted it to serve as a portable OS that I could use to boot any other computer off of, and use it for diagnostics and anti-virus scanning on Windows based computers. The additional space is for my own personal use, kind of like having a mobile desktop where I have all of my documents in one place.What I need to know is how to set up Fedora 11 so that the hard drive will boot on most PCs regardless of their architecture. I also need to know what's a good Anti-virus to install onto it for the sake of fixing Windows hard drives.
Please keep in mind I'm a noob when it comes down to a lot of things, so if there's an antivirus I have to install manually, please included a step by step.
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Jun 14, 2009
I have installed F11 on a secondary partition on an external hard drive (secondary drive is M:, I have put F11 on X: )
I also said to put the MBR (or maybe it's the grub stuff) on that partition with F11. I used ext3 as my Linux file system type.
But when I boot from that drive or even boot normally, I come back to Windows automatically.
I don't want to mess with my C: drive at all plus I want to keep most of that M: drive away from Linux.
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Jun 23, 2009
I've been trying to get Fedora 11 (x86_64, netinst) installed on my machine, but am having trouble with the hard drive selection and partitioning. This machine has 2 x 320GB hard drives. One for Windows, and one for Linux of course.
When I first tried the install, both hard drives were attached to the computer. I was expecting to see the drives seperately so that I could partition and install on only one of the drives, but device mapper kicked in and showed me a single 640GB long partition. Not very helpful in my case.
I decided to simply unplug the Windows drive so that fedora didn't see the two identical drives and so would not try to map them. However, with only the linux drive plugged in, the installer doesn't see it. There are no hard drives to select from in the installer.
As a test, I plugged in the windows drive solely and unplugged the linux drive, and low-and-behold, fedora sees the windows drive. This is getting slightly confusing at this point as both the hard drives are identical. I can't see why the installer would recognise one but not the other. Yet it recognises the extra 320GB of hard drive space if both drives are plugged in and device mapper tries to raid them. I tried the debian installer to see if it had the same problem, but it was able to see and install on this drive. I would have tried OpenSUSE as well but this computer doesn't have a DVD drive.
I haven't tried a "nodmraid" boot option yet, so I am going to try that tonight, but I'm interested to hear what the community thinks of this problem.
System Specs:
DFI LANParty UT NF680i LT SLI-T2R
Intel Q6600
Corsair XMS2-800 2x2GB
2 x Seagate Barracuda 320GB
I've also had a 640GB plugged in that was detected fine (probably because dm didn't try to raid it being the odd hdd out) but has been removed while I'm troubleshooting the fedora install.
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Oct 25, 2009
Listed are the steps and the issue:
1. Downloaded the Fedora-11-i386-DVD.iso in windows m/c
2. Used the liveusb-creator
3. Plugged the USB drive in the m/c where the Fedora needs to be installed. (This m/c does not have an OS)
4. The BIOS sensed the drive.
5. Selected the installation option from the menu
6. Proceeded with the installation steps and created the partitions
7. Got the error:
"Missing ISO 9660 image The installer has tried to mount image #1, ..."
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Aug 17, 2010
im installing fedora13. I need to install it as multi boot. I used a live cd to load up the live version of fedora on my computer and i started the installation setup. The problems im facing are: I cannot uncheck my usb drive when the setup asks me where do i need to install fedora. When i select "shrink current system" it shows my hard drive but says it has 0 bytes. I cannot proceed further because of the above problems.
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Sep 28, 2010
I installed fedora 13 on my usb drive. I updated all. on rebooting, it shows an error message:
kernel panic unable to mount
how to restore this usb drive.
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Jun 18, 2011
I just switched to Fedora (from Ubuntu) and can't seem to get Fedora to automount my old drive (which is my old Ubuntu drive). I tried the following with no luck (in fact, when I did this, it chocked during boot and went into emergency mode:
In /etc/fstab, I entered:
/dev/sdc /media/UBUNTU_DRIVE defaults 0 0
Another odd thing is the UBUNTU_DRIVE directory just disappears after reboot (and I know it was there before rebooting).
I have two additional drives in my tower, and both do show up in gparted, so I'm not sure why they're not getting mounted.
Why can't Fedora auto mount secondary (internal drives) automatically?
What can I do to tell it to auto mount the secondary drives (I have two) automatically?
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Nov 30, 2010
I downloaded the iso file from fedora's official site and copied the iso to my pendrive... to be able to install Fedora through pen drive i downloaded Universal-USB-Installer-1.8.1.5 and used it locate the iso file in my pen drive... after Universal-USB-Installer-1.8.1.5 did its job, i booted my pc and proceeded to the installation.. there was a 'install on hard disk option' and chose it... it asked me for a new password, my location etc. but when i chose the install option it prompted me an error saying that i dun have enough space to install fedora... how do i locate my drive during installation , so that i cud install it on my desired drive... it shows me two options, one is the pendrive while the other is "AMD something.... "(dun remember the exact name") whenever i select on the AMd.
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Aug 3, 2009
Background is this: Laptop has an internal h/d (obviously) so I removed it from laptop. Then set Bios to boot from external h/d. Installed Fedora 11 on ext. h/d no swap partition as drive already has 4 partitions. Fedora ran lovely!! I then replaced internal hard drive but left bios to boot from external hard drive. Boot screen for fedora came up, hit enter and fedora started loading. The little balloon started filling up, got to a quarter full and then screen went black. Had to reboot to get going again,same thing happened. Can anybody tell me what may be causing it,i.e. black screen. Fedora boots up and runs lovely with internal h/d removed. Any help very gratefully received. M/c has intel dual core processor, 3 gig of ram.
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Sep 9, 2011
Im taking the class now in college once a week. My professor said that we need to install any Linux operating systems so I chose Fedora, but he said we need at least 16GB free of space to install it in our computer, sadly i only have 1GB space left remaining. I told him about it and he told me about installing Fedora in my flash drive that has space of 16GB. I really am interested in this course and want to understand all of this stuff so can anyone tell me the process to install Fedora into flash drive so I can boot it anywhere else other than home? Also since he said I need 16GB to install it don't I got to buy 32GB flash drive at least?
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May 1, 2010
Trying to install Fedora 12 using the 6 CDs. Trying to install on an older x86 box.Problem is that when detecting my hard drive, Fedora 12 recognizes it as a sda hard drive instead of hda hard drive. I have no SCSI connected to my computer what so ever. It's an old fashion PATA Western Digital hard drive.If I proceed with the install, Fedora 12 only installs 200MB of the OS from the first CD only. No options for additional software or anything.
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Apr 1, 2009
There are 3 IDE drives in this box.
hda has Debian Lenny installed (with swap) and is to remain.
hdb1 has a linux distro on it.
hdb2 is a data partition and is to remain.
No other partitions on hdb.
HDD is data only (not really relevant but mentioned for completeness)
The system boots via Grub from MBR on hda.
I'm trying to install F10-i686-KDE-LiveCD on hdb1 but F10 won't allow it without modifying the partition tables which will, of course, wipe my data on hdb2. hdb seems to be a happy disk; e2fsck shows it clean and both partitions open properly in Konqueror within the LliveCD.
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Apr 9, 2009
I am trying to put Fedora 10 on an old machine in the basement, which does not have a DVD drive, so I downloaded the CD images from BitTorrent to my upstairs machine (running Fedora 10). I burned all 7 disks, but when I go to install and run the disk test, disc 2 always says it has errors. I have burned three different disks from two different downloads, and tested each twice. Is there something different about Disk 2?
I am not a pro, and in fact am pretty new to Fedora and Linux. I assume I am doing something wrong, but I cannot figure out what it is.
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May 5, 2009
I'm interested in trying out Fedora but would use it on my current Netbook (an ASUS eeePC 1000HE). I currently have Mandriva on it though which I don't want to stop using.Can I install it on a Flash Drive? If so, would it be in a sense a LiveDVD type of installation or could I actually do an install on the Flash Drive to use it as a Hard Drive? If so, what would the minimum flash drive size be?
Also, if I use the Flash Drive as a hard drive would it still have to use the internal hard drive or can all 3 partitions (swap, root, and home), be on the flash drive? Would it be possible to run it on more than one machine since I also have an Acer Aspire One?
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May 5, 2009
I'm a long-time windows junkie experimenting with Linux in order to broaden my knowledge spectrum. After failed attempts with no real support from Mandriva, Fedora's seemingly idiot-proof USB installation right from windows was a major turn-on to Fedora. I successfully downloaded and installed Fedora 10 i686 with the Live USB installer and, after a few tries and reformats, got it to boot up, if a bit shaky.
However, certain features of the OS seem to be out of place. Most notably, I can't find any options at all in the lists for "add/remove software." They simply come up as "No package cash is available." or something to that effect. Believe it or not, I had the common sense to search around before posting, but most users who posted with this problem ran a Yum update through the terminal and everything came up yippee-skippee. For me, not so much:
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Jul 27, 2009
I just installed Fedora 11 after wiping Fedora 9. Install went very smoothly and I like the upgrades. I am having trouble sharing a second drive. I didn't have this problem in 8 or 9. When I mount the drive under my login, I can't mount it in my wife's and vise versa. Even when I log out as opposed to switching users. This is the drive we have all of our multi media files and other files. So we both need to have access to it. Also I would very much like to share it with my XP laptop. The way I have been moving mp3s is to copy them to a jump drive then copy them the laptop. I had this problem with the Fedora 9 too.
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Sep 19, 2009
I just bought a brand new hard drive, installed fedora with no errors. However when I try to click on the hard drive i get this errorunable to mount physical volume, not a mountable file system, ( I only have 1 hard drive and fedora boots up fine so its got to be working)I installed hardware browser and no hard drives come up
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Nov 19, 2009
I've got sidux installed onto a 150GB sata drive & a 1TB sata drive for music/emails etc all formatted as ext3. When I boot into the KDE Fedora 12 (live CD) I find that I can't access that 1TB drive. No point installing Fedora 12, if I've lost the best part of a TB.
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