Hi please help me, i cannot finish my fedora7 install.

1. I am download the DVD version "fedora7" the file is "F-7-i386-DVD.iso".Than i don't have DVD burner, so i using second harddisk to copy this file"F-7-i386-DVD.iso" to my second harddisk.

2. ok , my system is pentium 4, using IDE, my IDE1 is master HARDISK(this harddisk waitting for install Fedora7),than my IDE2 is master HARDISK(this harddisk is already have file"F-7-i386-DVD.iso" and also /isolinux/vmlinuz & initrd.img two files in this harddisk.

3. i using floppy to boot win98 a:\ ,than i use "grub4dos"software to run, so now grub>

4. i key the command root at "grub" ok the grub can see my first harddisk(IDE1), than i try to see second harddisk(IDE2) also ok grub> root (hd1,0) .

5. ok i key command: grub> kernel (hd1,0)/isolinux/vmlinuz than ok. than i key command: grub> initrd (hd1,0)/isolinux/initrd.img also ok. than key boot.

6. ok i can boot to fedora7 installation setup screen, but when askking the ISO file location, than PROBLEM. I try to use key "ALT+F1,F2,F3,F4" also cannot go to shell command line, because i want to mount this "second harddisk ISO file".

Why this version fedora7 when at setup screen cannot go to SHELL command line, like redhat linux 6.2 can go to SHELL command line. PLEASE help me THANK YOU...

Hello hocheetiong,

I don't understand why at that point you think you need a command line to mount anything. I routinely do hard drive installs from the ISO file and never had to do that. Everything you described up to that point is a perfectly normal hard drive installation from an ISO file. At the point where you are prompted for the location of the ISO file, you should see a list of partitions from which to choose.And below that list of partitions that I just mentioned, you should see a text box in which to type any directory names in the path to the ISO file. Are you not seeing what I just described?

P.S.: I recommend that you place all three of the installation files (the ISO, vmlinuz, initrd.img) in the root directory of the partition in which they are stored. In other words, do not place any of the three files in a folder or subfolder like you are doing. It makes it simpler and easier to find them and point grub and the anaconda installer to them. And if you do that, remember that your grub> commands will be different (simpler)...

What you have been using......would become......if you take my advice and get rid of that isolinux directory and place all three files in the root directory.

Note: You don't need the (hd1,0) part in the kernel and initrd lines because the grub> root (hd1,0) command that precedes them makes it unnecessary.

Small points, but simpler is better and may help you with this.

Hi Stoat, i am hocheetiong. ya i read already your reply, than i try to install again, than ok!!! Thank you so much, u are very experience in linux.

emmm... i have found that, i donwload from fedora website fedora 7 DVD version ISO, than when i install have error, i found already if my ISO file is store at harddisk file system is NTFS than cannot boot to kernel also. another is ok my ISO file store at that harddisk change to FAT32 file system, than OK, BUT when i put the ISO file in FOLDER ,example: /fedora7/fedora7.iso than this will problem when the installation want to start, whatever can find the ISO file, but when start install from this ISO files the system will error.....


Thank you very much Stoat.