yakoub wrote:
all linux distribution i know has an /isolinux directory what is it ?
i added to lilo.conf : image = /boot/vmlinuz label = install initrd = /slackware/isolinux/initrd.img read-only
and lilo booted the slackware installation program .
is there anything wrong with what i did ?
You may know GRUB or LILO. They are boot record programs for starting your operating system. They are fine as far as they go, but sometimes something else is needed.
One of these "sometimes" is when you need to start your own setup from scratch. ISOLINUX is a tool to do so. It has several variants, most notable of them is syslinux, which is aimed mostly for floppies, and pxelinux, which allows booting from the network via supporting DHCP and tftp servers.
In short, this is a tool that specializes in zero install boot blocks for loading Linux. Totally unsuitable for normal operation, but just what you need under some circumstances.
What you did with your lilo.conf is, in fact, unrelated to isolinux. You took the kernel and initrd used to fire up the installation process, and told Lilo to load them (where they were, originally, meant to be loaded by isolinux. Unsurprisingly, that does not matter).
Shachar
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