> Helge Hielscher wrote:
> Greg Meyer wrote:
>> Why don't you just mirror cooker and install from hard disk? It's a much
>> faster install anyway.
>>
> Is there a HOWTO somewhere? Does it work on a floppy-less PC?
I don't have a floppy drive. Thanks to Buchan for showing me this. I
simplified his lilo.conf stanzas somewhat.
I have this in my /etc/lilo.conf
image=/boot/vmlinuz-hdimg
label=hd-install
root=/dev/ram3
initrd=/boot/hd.rdz
append="rmadisk_size=32000"
vga=791
read-only
In order to put the required files from hd.img into /boot, I do the following:
su -
cd <to where hd.img is located>
mount -t vfat hd.img ~/tmp/ -o loop=/dev/loop3
cp ~/tmp/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz-hdimg
cp ~/tmp/hd.rzd /boot
umount ~/tmp
/sbin/lilo
exit
Now you can select "hd-install" from your lilo boot menu and that will start
the installer.
You will need to know what partition stores your cooker mirror and the path to
your cooker/i586/ directory, relative to that partition.
This is a very way to install Mandrake :-)
Narfi.
