On Wednesday 25 December 2002 16:05, Buchan Milne wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Jason Straight wrote:
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> > On Wednesday 25 December 2002 01:58 pm, Narfi Stefansson wrote:
> > > 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. [...]
> > > CD. Can I put the contents of hd.img on my hard drive, and use lilo to
> > > boot from it?
> [...]
> 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
>
Wonderful! I wanted to run the expert install and ended up with:
image=/boot/vmlinuz-hdimg
label=hd-install
root=/dev/ram3
initrd=/boot/hd.rdz
append="rmadisk_size=32000 expert"
vga=791
read-only
and I have to say that this is a very sweet way of installing cooker.
Thanks for the help,
Narfi.
