Ainsi parlait Guillaume Cottenceau :
> Guillaume Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> [...]
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> > > The best way to have network with rescue is to start the rescue over
> > > the network, if you can.
> >
> > Yes, but this involves booting stage1 from a floppy and booting stage2
> > from network, whereas using CD-ROM is way faster.
>
> The fastest way, to my knowledge, is to use NFS, and you can start with a
> GRUB-network or even, a PXE boot, which are quick. If you mean faster
> because you don't need to manually enter paramters - but that can be
> automated with appropriate configuration :-).
I suppose a GRUB-network needs a still working GRUB bootloader on the broken
machine, and i don't know what is PXE boot.
The really slow step is not getting the rescue stage, but really booting from
a floppy, the only media for which a network-aware boot image is available
AFAK.
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> Oh. I see, you mean, that the stage1 from the CDROM be able to start
> ftp/http/nfs installs? This is unsupported because we would need a 2.88MB
> boot to do that (as in 7.2) but this fails with many laptops. We don't
> provide this on cd #2 because the use is very limited (since you need the
> same kernel, you can't start Cooker with a 8.0 CDROM with that).
I don't understand here. Why do you need the same kernel ? 8.0 kernel can't
run cooker installer ?
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