Re: [LIH]LOADLIN+bootnet: network install

[Sriram Ganapathy]

Hello friend,

You are not supposed to use the bootnet.img file the way you have just described. Instead in the dostutils directory of the first install CD you will hava a utility called "rawrite.exe". Use this utility after booting into DOS mode to create your boot disk.

c:> rawrite.exe
image : c:\bootnet.img (or whatever is the path containing the image on the CDROM)

If you want to create the same boot disk from linux
1> copy bootnet.img into "/"
2> dd if=/bootnet.img of=/dev/fd0

You can now proceed with the booting. Just did a Redhat 7.1 and Mandrake 9.0 NFS install last night on a 10Mbps lan. It worked flawlessly. No problems of inserting CD's. Only that Mandrake wants the rpms to be copied to separate sub-directories(RPMS,RPMS2,RPMS3) while Redhat wants it all in the same sub-directory(RPMS). Further I had copied the Install files on a FreeBSD UFS slice and mounted it on Linux. It was great. BTW for NFS to work you also have to start portmapper.


Regards,
G.Sriram.

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon, 9 Dec 2002 10:51:43 -0500

network installation woes - the situation briefly is this:

there are 9 machines with NO floppy+cdrom running win98 and one linux
server with cdrom.
so i try using LOADLIN with the bootnet.img file but it gives error.
next, i split the bootnet.img into vmlinuz and initrd.img files using
only vi (and eyes) and then try LOADLIN. works.
next, the set of ethernet drivers for NFS install don't work.
next, i recompile vmlinuz to include the relevant driver for vmlinuz. works.

question - is there any easier way to do this without
1. editing bootnet.img file
2. recompiling kernel for relevant network driver
for rest of redhat distributions?






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