On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 04:54:10PM -0500, Tong wrote: > I used to use initrd and vmlinuz from > http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media > to do HD-based net install. so that, > > - there would be no CDs burning/wasting
Answer: CD-RW > - work 10 times faster than installing from CD. Probably not. Besides where on the HD would this be. I would have to get it there somehow, and partition the disk somehow. How would I do that? I don't have any other OS on my machine. > It seems that I can't do it with AMD64 now. The error was can't get files > from CD. So you see, the error was weird -- the sarge-amd64-netinst.iso > loaded, started properly, worked normally all the way pass the disk > partitioning, then stopped there. > > Any similar experience? Probably 99.9% of people want to boot and install from CD. It is the simplest to do too. The only HD install I have ever done was a DecStation 5000 since it had broken tftp boot in the firmware and I had no clue how to MOP boot at the time (I now do, so the HD install image that was such a pain to dd into the disk since I had to find a machine that could run an old scsi 1 disk.) Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
