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All steps taken during this document are performed by the root superuser. In order for this to work your /boot directory needs to be a part of a separate filesystem than what you intend to install on.

Downloading Images

The two files you'll need to download are the installation kernel & the initial ram disk. As of this writing Fedora 9 is the latest, so I'll use that as an example.

• 32-bit : ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/i386/os
• 64-bit : ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/x86_64/os

At that URL you'll see a few directories, the one you're most interested in is isolinux/, inside of that you'll see vmlinuz & initrd.img. Download both of these to /boot, saving them as F9 & F9.img respectively.

wget -O /boot/F9 ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/x86_64/os/isolinux/vmlinuz 
wget -O /boot/F9.img ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/x86_64/os/isolinux/initrd.img 

Configure GRUB

Next you'll want to add a stanza to your /etc/grub.conf to load these files on boot, a stanza similar to this should take care of everything.

title F9 Installation 
       kernel /F9 graphical 
       initrd /F9.img 

Reboot & Install

• Once you've completed configuring your GRUB configuration, you'll want to reboot your system. When the GRUB boot screen comes up press <ESC> & select F9 Installation.

• On the next few screens you'll select your language & keyboard setup.

• Now you'll select what sort of installation you'll want to perform, here we'll select URL.
  • If you want to install from a hard drive you'll need the .iso images in whatever directory you specify.

• The defaults for your network configuration should be fine.

• Enter in the URL you'll be installing from, make sure you preface it with ftp:// or http://
  • I've noticed that most FTP sites throttle their traffic while HTTP is rarely throttled

• Here we're downloading the second stage of the installation, go get something to drink... this will take a while.

• Voila! You're ready to install Fedora. Have fun.