[Rule-list] Install with no CD or floppy drive

[Michael Fratoni]

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On Wednesday 17 April 2002 01:46 pm, Raymundo Baquirin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have acquired a laptop (Fujitsu Point 510) on which to test the RULE
> installers.  I will get the RH 7.2 CDs in a few days and hope to have a
> CDROM drive to use with the laptop then (fingers crossed).  Right now
> the laptop has no CDROM drive or floppy drive. It's running Win95.
[snip]
> My questions: where can I get the install kernel (I guess it's on the
> boot disk image but I don't know how to get at it)?  And what other
> files will I need aside from the disk2.img?

slinky-${version}.img is a dos formatted filesystem image. You should be 
able to copy the kernel without difficulty. The disk also contains the 
installers basic file system (gzipped), which the installer will need 
access to. The setup scripts are in the gzipped file, and will be in the 
/scripts directory after unzipping.
If what you are trying to do works, the filesystem will be unziped and 
loaded into a ram disk during the boot process.
I've never used loadlin, but if you can point it at the floppy, and tell 
it to boot 'vmlinuz', I suspect it might work.

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