[RULE] Re: Off Topic Question

Joe Sprankle joes at primarycolor.com
Mon Jan 6 17:42:50 EET 2003


Check out this link:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-install-methods.en.html#s-boot
-drive-files
This explains how to do a install from lilo on a Debian system (which I
ended up doing). But I'm sure you can use the information it gives and
manage to do it from RedHat.
Joe
----- Original Message -----
From: "gregory mott" <gmott at ntlworld.com>
To: "The main mailing list of the RULE project" <rule-list at nongnu.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 3:22 PM
Subject: Re: [RULE] Re: Off Topic Question


> On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 13:55, Raymundo Baquirin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 11 December 2002 19:36, you wrote:
> > > From: "Joe Sprankle" <joes at primarycolor.com>
> > > Subject: [RULE] Off Topic Question
> > >
> > > I am trying to install RedHat on a laptop with no floppy or CDROM....
> > > joe
> >
> > I've done this a few times except I don't use lilo.  Instead I use
loadlin
> > (or linld for 2.4 kernels) to boot vmlinuz and point it to an initrd
and/or
> > root file system.  The necessary files all reside in the windows or dos
> > partition. If you want to look into this, there are details of the
process in
> > a couple of my posts to this list (one of them quite recent).
> > HTH,
> > Ray
>
> i would like to do this also, and could not find your posts.  could you
> repost, or send to me, or send me pointer?
>
> it is complicated by the need to install via a pcmcia nic.  with
> anaconda, it seems it ought to be possible to prepare an initrd that has
> what i need, but anaconda insists on reading pcmcia drivers from an
> actual floppy, so would i have to hack the anaconda source?  would
> miniconda or slinky do me better?
>
> thank you,
> -greg
>
>
>
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