In dealing with trying to install Fedora Core 5 on a Compaq IPaq with 4G disk - a CD-Less, Floppy-Less, "mini Darlik" - I'm convinced I'll have to install an "image" on the hard drive which will initiate the install process.
This little ogre has NO outside connectors on it than USB ports, either! - (hideous, but challenging and viewwy vewwy quiett!)
Once I get the Installation Process rolling, I should have no problem FTPeeing the installation disks across the network - thereby installing Fedora within its intended environment.

(I did attempt to install Fedora on this hard drive within another host, then transfer the hard drive back to the "Darlik". This worked but not perfectly as there were residual functionality and setup issues).

The Readme file in the disk 1 /images directory states:
The diskboot.img file is a VFAT filesystem image that can be written to a USB pendrive or other bootable media larger than a floppy. Note that booting via USB is dependent on your BIOS supporting this. It should be written to the device using dd.

CAN the same thing be done to a hard drive?
Or how might I transfer a CDROM image onto a hard drive and use boot.iso instead?

[The boot.iso file is an ISO 9660 image of a bootable CD-ROM. It is useful in cases where the CD-ROM installation method is not desired, but the CD-ROM's boot speed would be an advantage.]

Or maybe there's a third option I need to know about?
THANKS EVERYBODY

-WaVy
=by no means an expert - just a former drip under pressure=

Ok - a little closer to the environment I need to set this operation in place...

On another platform (which has a bootable CD drive), I hooked up the target HD by itself then used the rescue CD disk to boot into a core shell.
All I have to do is define, format and mount the hard drive, and copy ["dd"] the bootable image I need onto my hard drive, right?

Please advise. I need verbose instruction.

-wAv