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It’s actually a straight-forward process and is good for users who are lazy to download multi-GB images for a one-time installation procedure.

1. Go to Fedora web site and download netinst.iso for your machine architecture. For i386, the filename should be Fedora-9-i386-netinst.iso
2. Burn this iso to a CD/DVD. Note that this is an image file. After burning, you should see folders like isolinux, etc on your CD. If you still see an iso file on your CD, that means you have not burnt the image correctly.
3. Now boot up your machine using the CD/DVD. Select the first option on the menu.
4. Then continue the setup process until you are prompted with the location of your installation media. Choose URL.
5. You will be prompted to setup your network devices. Enter the settings according to your network environment.
6. When prompted for the location of your repository, you need to enter the URL of an online repository which contains the individual RPMs. It is not the same as the Fedora image mirrors which contain only the iso images. For me, I use http://mirror.hiwaay.net/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/i386/os
   If you enter a wrong URL for the repository, you need to restart the setup process. Somehow, there is a bug in the installer which prevents me from correcting any error in the URL at the later stages.
7. Continue with your disk drive partitioning. If your repository URL is correct, you will prompted to select your package groups: office and productivity, development and web servers. From then on, the setup process will be similar to a CD/DVD-based installation.

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