On Mon, 2002-04-01 at 12:33, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I had problems trying to install from a harddrive. Although I do have a > > bootable cdrom, it would be much faster via harddrive. > > > > 1) XFS Filesystem isn't included in hd.img (because it's module size is > > ~250KB?) > > Yes, only ext2/ext3, vfat and reiserfs are supported. > > xfs and jfs are not. > > > 2) I tried formatting a floppy with the ext2 fs and adding the XFS > > modules to it, but my ls120 drive is /dev/hda instead of /dev/fd0! > > It's not enough, when calling the "mount" command I need to > specify the filesystem type, adding the module is not enough, > modifying the program is also needed. > > > a) When prompted by the hd.img boot to insert the floppy with the extra > > modules, it searches /dev/fd0 instead of what i booted hd.img bootdisk > > from initially (/dev/hda). > > Yes, this is a known limitation. I don't try to detect the > floppies, I just assume you're using /dev/fd0; I think the use > for more precision is not worthe the effort and the supplementary > bytes.
ditto. don't think it's really worth the effort either since manufacturers are not supporting their super-sized floppy drives all that well. > > > As an option to eleviate this problem, maybe adding an option to the > > cdrom install (when booting via cdrom) to specify an alternate install > > location (via hdd, nfs, etc), instead of only including these alternate > > install methods via floppy diskette? Especially since floppy drives are > > becoming more obsolete. > > Use the second cdrom, it boots on "isolinux" which contains all > the boot methods (but doesn't support hd install from xfs of > course). > ah. but no XFS filesystem still! lol. thanx for the tip tho. i'll go play with isolinux to experiment. i did finish the install via 12x cdrom, but it took a couple of hours instead of the speedy <45minutes via dvd/hdd/nfs. i've been mirroring the whole mdk install cdroms & SRPMS to my hdd since 7.0 or so. > > This way, if a person has a system with no floppy drive and only a cdrom > > drive, he/she can also have the option to install via nfs or harddrive > > if they have a slow cdrom drive. Just a thought. ...maybe more options > > then needed here. > > -- > Guillaume Cottenceau - http://www.frozen-bubble.org/ > -- Roger ----- Verify my pgp/gnupg signature on my HomePage: http://www.alltel.net/~rogerx/about/index.html
