fedora cd iso problem(installation from hard drive problem)

[harmax]

i (at last) installed fedora core 4 from hard drive successfully.

but the problem is whenever i try to use add/remove packages the program expects the fedora core cd's which i obviously dont have.

how do i work around this problem by altering the program to use the iso's from the hard drive.

( OR WILL I HAVE TO BURN 4 4 4 CD'S)

 

[ujjwal]

I am unsure, but you can probably mount the ISO image in /mnt/cdrom (or where ever the installer looks for the CD-ROM), and trick the installer into using the ISO instead.

To mount an ISO image

mount -o loop <path to iso> /mnt/cdrom

 

[harmax]

my command read

mount -o loop /mnt/fedora_iso/fedora4/FC#-i386-disc3.iso /media/cdrom

mounted the partition as cdrom

but the add/remove programs failed to read .

 

[ujjwal]

I am unfamiliar with Fedora Core's installer, but maybe it is trying to mount the CD-ROM itself in a certain directory, and then install the packages.

You can try to find out where it mounts the CD by inserting any disk into your drive, starting the installation program, telling it that you have inserted the Fedora disk, and coming to a terminal and typing "mount" to see what all has been mounted.

Again, this is pure guess work, someone who has used FC a lot will be able to help out better. Maybe it will just turn out to be easier to burn the Cd's, or install the RPM's manually. But one should probably drop the fedora team a line, requesting them to add an option to specify the location of the installation media.