Install Fedora 8 (Werewolf) on Windows XP with QEMU

Step 4 USE NETINSTALL WITH THE BOOT.ISO IMAGE

4.1 START QEMU WITH THIS IMAGE

For example if using the installed Qemu-0.9.1:

qemu.exe -L Bios -m 256 -hda Images\fedora8.img -soundhw all -localtime                 -M pc -net nic,model=ne2k_pci -net user -no-acpi -boot d -cdrom Images\boot-F8.iso

Option description:

+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+| -L Bios			    |	Local path of all BIOS relatively to the qemu.exe file  || -m 256			    |	Memory is set to 256 Mbytes                             || -hda Images\fedora8.img	    |	First hard drive is the image created in step           ||				    |	above (warning: since Fedora 7 all drives               ||				    |	including ATA are detected as SCSI. Here the            ||				    |	disk will be named sda in Fedora)                       || -net nic,model=ne2k_pci -net user |	Network card is a NE2000-PCI in Qemu user               ||				    |	mode network                                            || -boot d -cdrom Images\boot-F8.iso |	Boot from CDROM (d) and use the downloaded iso          ||				    |	file as the cdrom image                                 |+-----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------+

The cdrom image will start automatically (see first image).

4.2 ANACONDA INSTALLER

The Anaconda installer is then starting.

1. Choose your language (French for me) in the first screen.

OK, I must apologize, starting from here all screen dumps are in French, but it should not be so different as the English screens: a first good step to start playing with i18n :->

2. Choose the keyboard.

3. Installation method: choose HTTP or FTP (FTP works sometimes better).

4. TCP/IP configuration: disable IPv6 and choose "Dynamic IP Configuration" DHCP as this will be provided to the running anaconda by Qemu (See "3.7.3 Using the user mode network stack" in the Qemu documentation: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-doc.html#SEC30).

5. HTTP Configuration: select the source web site (for example ftp.funet.fi) and the complete path up to /os/.
In our example: /pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/


6. The installer is now fetching .img files from the selected web site (Alt-F3: switches to the debug screen).

Now it's a quite long process and every error from now on leads to a complete crash and you have to restart from point 4.1. Biggest probability is a blocked stage2.img file.