5.2. Preparing for a Hard Drive Installation
Hard drive installations only work from ext2, ext3, ext4, or FAT file systems. You cannot use a hard drive formatted for any other file system as an installation source for Fedora.
To check the file system of a hard drive partition on a Windows operating system, use the Disk Management tool. To check the file system of a hard drive partition on a Linux operating system, use the fdisk tool.
Use this option to install Fedora on systems without a DVD drive or network connection.
Ensure that you have boot media available on CD, DVD, or a USB storage device such as a flash drive.
The Fedora installation program has the ability to test the integrity of the installation media. It works with the CD, DVD, hard drive ISO, and NFS ISO installation methods. We recommend that you test all installation media before starting the installation process, and before reporting any installation-related bugs (many of the bugs reported are actually due to improperly-burned discs). To use this test, type the following command at the boot:
prompt:
linux rd.live.check