How to install Fedora8 on a hard disk in Windows XP

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First, download the DVD ora 8 DVD image. It is recommended that domestic users download it from Chinaunix. Foreign images are relatively slow.

Second, download grub4dos (grub four/for dos), decompress it to any directory, copy grldr and menu. lst to the C root directory, modify boot. ini, and add a new line:

C: \ grldr = "GRUB"

(Boot. ini is a hidden file. In the menu bar, select Tools> folders, remove the check box before hiding the protected operating system files (recommended), and then select to display all files and folders, ).

Third, extract the vmlinuz and initrd. img files in the isolinux directory of the Fedora image and store them in a directory.

4. Determine whether to store the Fedora image and vmlinuz and initrd. the Partition Number of the two img files. You can use the Partition Manager 9 Demo to view the Partition Number (right-click and choose Properties> Linux Partition number) and record it. Here, it is marked as X, Y.

Fifth, restart, select the GRUB option, and select command line in the displayed menu to enter the command line. Input:

Kernel (hd0, Y-1)/directory where you store vmlinuz/vmlinuz

Initrd (hdo, Y-1)/directory where you store initrd. img/initrd. img

Boot

Note: It is best to store the data in the FAT32 partition (NTFS has not been tried and may also work) and the directory name is in English; hd0 indicates the first physical hard disk. If you have multiple hard disks, the numbers are 0, 1 in sequence, 2 ,......; Because the record's X, Y is numbered from 1, and here it is numbered from 0, so it is Y-1 rather than Y;

If you put the vmlinuz and initrd. img files in the root directory, enter:

Kernel (hd0, Y-1)/vmlinuz

Initrd (hdo, Y-1)/initrd. img

Boot

Sixth, start now. Select Chinese (Simpled) in the language selection menu (note: the language is still English, and the GUI will become Chinese after startup ), then, select the location of the Fedora image and select sdaX, and enter the directory to be stored in the lower right box (of course, nothing is entered in the root directory ).

Now, if there is no problem, you should enter the GUI installation interface.