On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Jason Straight wrote:
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> On Wednesday 25 December 2002 01:58 pm, Narfi Stefansson wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> > I need a little advice before I install cooker on a separate partition on
> > my home computer.
> > I already have all of cooker mirrored on a reiserfs partition on my hard
> > drive, so I am all set for a hard drive install using hd.img.
> > Except I don't have a floppy drive.
> > Since the installation may or may not be successful, I don't particularly
> > feel like using MakeCD to create a complete set of install CDs.
> > What would you recommend? Can I burn a bootable CD with hd.img on it? Such
> > a CD would be valid for a lot longer than a standard install CD.
> > Can I put the contents of hd.img on my hard drive, and use lilo to boot
> > from it?
> > Thanks,
> > and merry Christmas to all of you,
> >
> > Narfi.
>
> Don't know if there's any way to get lilo to do it - but yes you should be
> able to just put the boot image on a CD as you normally would any bootable
> CD.
>
Loop mount the hd.img, and copy the files in the image to /boot, and then
make a lilo entry something like this:
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19-16mdkBOOT
label=install
root=/dev/ram3
initrd=/boot/hd.rdz
append="rmadisk_size=32000
automatic=method:disk,par:hda6,dir:path/to/mandrake/cooker/i586,disk:hda"
vga=791
read-only
This is what I used for a live installation demo
(http://www.lua.org.za/event)
Adjust as necessary. I probably renamed the kernel from what was in the
image, but I think you should be able to figure it out ...
path/to/mandrake/cooker/i586 would be relative on hda6 in my case.
Regards,
Buchan
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