Fedora 18 can’t be installed via CD / DVD or USB boot if you’re Mac OS X is mountain lion. Luckly, we still can use medialess. If you don’t have Fedora or Linux installed, you can start with Fedora 17 boot CD which it’s works perfectly (you need to install this first).
Using medialess meaning, we already have DVD / CD ISO. For instance, I have “fedora.iso” in /home/. Using ‘df -hT’, I know that my “/home” pointed into “/dev/sda8”. This can be vary depend on where you put the ISO. Then, we need to mount the ISO (in this example, I have fedora.iso in /home) :
1 | mount -o loop /home/fedora.iso /tmp/mnt |
Copy the vmlinuz and initrd.img files from /tmp/mnt/ (look inside) to the /boot/ directory, renaming them to vmlinuz-install and initrd.img-install. You must have root privileges to write files into the /boot/ directory.
Edit “/etc/grub.conf”, copy existing grub menu and modify the kernel and initrd part:
1 2 3 4 5 | menuentry "Fedora Linux" { set root=(hd0,1) linux /vmlinuz-install initrd /initrd.img-install repo=hd:/dev/sda8:/fedora.iso } |
Remember, set root=(hd0,1) can be different with yours. That’s why I suggest to copy from previous configuration.
This “repo=hd:/dev/sda8:/fedora.iso” meaning “repo=hd:
All set, now we need to reboot and we can start install Fedora 18 Medialess