-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Monday 09 February 2004 7:43 pm, Walt Frampus wrote: > could someone point me to a site that tells how to do a ftp install > without using a floppy drive? The problem is, my friend doesn't have a > floppy drive to make a boot image disk. Or can he do an install using > the ISO's on his windows drive to install Mandrake 9.2 on his other hard > drive? Any help would be apreciated! > > Thanks > > Walt
Don't worry that everything below seems to be about cooker Walt. It was written (mostly) before Mandrake 9.2 became fact and applies to that more than a current cooker install anyway. Excerpt below from the page: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CookerHowTo Via Hard Disk or Network with No Floppy or CD-ROM Some machines nowadays do not have a floppy drive or a cd-rom. How does one do an installation without either of those. Well thanks to some enterprising young cookers, We have figured out how to boot the installer from the LILO or GrUB menu. Extract the necessary files from the appropriate floppy image. To do this, mount the floppy image as a loopback device in your tmp directory and then copy the appropriate files to your boot directory. cd /path/to/hd.img mount -t vfat hd.img ~/tmp/ -o loop=/dev/loop3 cp ~/tmp/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz-hdimg cp ~/tmp/hd.rdz /boot umount ~/tmp Make an entry in /etc/lilo.conf if you use LILO or /boot/grub/menu.lst if you use GrUB Example entry for LILO bootloader image=/boot/vmlinuz-hdimg label=hd-install root=/dev/ram3 initrd=/boot/hd.rdz append="ramdisk_size=32000" vga=791 read-only As always, after you have finished editing /etc/lilo.conf, you need to run /sbin/lilo before your changes take effect. Example entry for GrUB bootloader title hd-install kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-hdimg root=/dev/ram3 ramdisk_size=32000 vga=791 initrd (hd0,0)/boot/hd.rdz If you want to do the same thing but are installing from an NFS or FTP source, just use the network.img floppy image instead of the hd.img floppy image. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Cooker) for i586 kernel 2.4.25-0.pre7.3mdk 08:33:32 up 18:00, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.07, 0.07 "Oh my! An `inflammatory attitude' in alt.flame? Never heard of such a thing..." - -- Allen Gwinn, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAKPs3ZqvqlrLPr5YRAqcCAJ9BLZJmBp7AB/B7eaclBzT+FXnHOwCgh9AW /Pt2nP3GOUaVSbwBAhIwrbc= =XlyE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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