Fw: [Rule-list] Re: How to install? (Jorge L. Beker)

[Raymundo Baquirin]

Hi, Jorge,

On Sunday 19 May 2002 00:00, you wrote:
>  What is the difference betwwen miniconda and slinky? 
I guess you mean, as far as mounting goes.  If that's the case then the 
answer is that the boot disks in both are msdos file system images, so when 
you do a loop mount it should be type msdos.

>  Do you know how to
>  extract the files that you say under DOS? Because I dont have a linux
>  machine! I cant install it!!!

As far as I know, you do have to boot a loop-aware linux kernel in order to 
do a loop mount.  I have previously used looplinux 
(http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/).  There are complete 
instructions at the site but basically all you need is to download the file 
loopslak.bin and the Slackware kernel of your choice (all Slackware kernels 
have loop support).

Then you can do:
	loadlin bzImage initrd=loopslak.bin root=/dev/ram0

After logging in as root do:
	mkdir /mnt/win /mnt/floppy
	mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/win     		# mount your windows partition
	cd /mnt/win/rule/miniconda/7.3        		# or wherever the boot.img file is
	mount -t msdos boot.img /mnt/floppy -o loop  	# loop mount the floppy image
	cd /mnt/floppy
	ls						# this should show vmlinuz and initrd.img
							# w/c you can copy to your win partition
HTH,
Ray

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