[Rule-list] non-ide cd PC #12

Gordon Buzowetsky idesofmarch at sk.sympatico.ca
Sun Mar 17 05:50:49 EET 2002


> >
> >   Could I be doing something wrong copying the disk to floppy...only
> > thing I didn't try yet was doing the copy in linux.  Yet OTOH the
> > boot.img and oldcdrom.img work well (used rawrite).  Await 'expert'
> > advice...;-)).....G
> 
> You are untarring the the tarfile to the floppy, right?
> You need to create a floppy, format it (ext2 or dos file system should 
> work) and untar the tarfile. You should end up with a disk containing:
> anaconda   image.py         laptop.py    server.py        workstation.py
> comps      installclasses   lowmem.py    upgradeclass.py
> custom.py  installclass.py  reconfig.py  upgradeonly.py
> 
> You could also just download the contents of the images-0.7.0 directory 
> to disk.
> 

OOOOOPS.........that was probably the only thing I DIDN'T do, couldn't
untar in windoze...;-((...(hmm wonder if Winzip would do it)....thanks
Devon...will do it and give it another try...tomorrow...AM...long day
today...gotta roost....;-))...G

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