Fw: Fw: [Rule-list] Re: How to install?

[Jorge L. Beker]

 no..... beacuse to boot from loadlin I need to extract files from the .img
 image...how can i extract the files from the .img, if the .img is an image
 for linux

 jorge
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marco Fioretti" <m.fioretti at inwind.it>
> To: <rule-list at mail.freesoftware.fsf.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 5:30 AM
> Subject: Re: Fw: [Rule-list] Re: How to install?
>
>
> > Jorge,
> >
> > the difference between the two installer is summarized here:
> >
> > http://www.rule-project.org/inst_report.html
> >
> > I am not sure I understand what you mean by " extract the
> > files...under DOS". Single files can be downloaded/copied/etc in any
> > operating system. Do you refer to uncompressing tar archives in DOS
> > (i.e. how to extract single files from inside a .tar.gz collection?
> >
> > Ciao,
> > Marco Fioretti
> >
> > On Fri, May 17, 2002 17:48:46 at 05:48:46PM -0300, Jorge L. Beker wrote:
> > >  What is the difference betwwen miniconda and slinky? Do you know how
to
> > >  extract the files that you say under DOS? Because I dont have a linux
> > >  machine! I cant install it!!!
> > >
> > >
> > >  ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Raymundo Baquirin" <rayb at apc.edu.ph>
> > > > To: <rule-list at mail.freesoftware.fsf.org>
> > > > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 6:40 AM
> > > > Subject: [Rule-list] Re: How to install?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Hi Jorge,
> > > > >
> > > > > On Friday 17 May 2002 00:00, you wrote:
> > > > > >   , now, i cant use boot.img to boot with loadlin, and i must
put
> the
> > > > > > floppy drive. If I put floppy drive, i dont have CD, and I dont
> have
> > > > free
> > > > > > space to
> > > > > >   copy all the image... do you now how to load it with loadlin?
> > > > > You can mount the slinky boot image as a loop device:
> > > > > mount -t vfat /path/to/slinky-v02.3.img /mnt -o loop
> > > > > Then copy the needed files:
> > > > >             cd /mnt
> > > > >             ls
> > > > > (output should be:
> > > > >     boot.msg ldlinux.sys rootfs.gz syslinux.cfg vmlinuz )
> > > > >            cp vmlinuz rootfs.gz   /target/dir
> > > > > Then
> > > > >         (from  /target/dir after booting into DOS)
> > > > > loadlin vmlinuz initrd=rootfs.gz root=/dev/ram0
> > > > >
> > > > > HTH,
> > > > >
> > > > > Ray
> > > > >
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