X220 WIN7 & FEDORA 16

PRE:
A. prepare flash disk(at least 4G) to boot and install fedora
B. need internet connection during fedora installation.
C. clear enough disk in windows
D. download
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-16-i386-DVD.iso
or
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-16-x86_64-DVD.iso
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START:

1. download grubinst-1.1-bin-w32-2008-01-01 http://download.gna.org/grubutil/

2. download grub4dos-0.4.4 http://download.gna.org/grub4dos/

3. run grubinst_gui.exe(administrator mode), choose your flash disk, installation, u should see a window says "The MBR/BS has been successfully installed"

4. unzip grub4dos-0.4.4, copy grldr and menu.lst to / of flash disk

5.copy Fedora-16-Beta-i386-DVD.iso, initrd.img and vmlinux(these two are in iso, u need to extract them) to / of flash disk. So now flash disk have 5 files.

6. add commands below at the end of menu.lst:

title F16 setup

root (hd0,0)

kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1

initrd /initrd.img

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ps: initrd.img might be initrd when extract from iso, do not care about that, do not add .iso.

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7. reboot, F12, choose to boot from flash disk

8.choose F16 setup

9. next, when you choose the installation storage type, I choose the last one, create blablabla, then you can cut your disk by yourself, make sure you backup your data first.

10. next next.....choose software development if you want to do some coding in fedora...

11. next.................

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swap:2G

/:5G ext4

/home:30G ext4

/usr/locale:20G ext4

/tmp:1G ext4

/var:2G ext4

/boot:200M ext3

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Now you can go to a party or watch Big Bang Theory or White Collar(Moz is soooo cooool)

enjoy :)