On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 11:50, Eben King wrote:
> Are there floppy images on the CD? If you can dual-boot into Windows or
> DOS, there might be "how to boot this CD from Windows" (involving
> LOADLIN.EXE) directions too.
Inside of the FC2 /images directory, there is a "diskboot.img"
directory. It is very large, 6MB, but you can use it in a variety of
ways.
1) Image it to a Zip, USB device, etc..., if your BIOS supports it
2) Mount it on loopback, and copy to a FAT filesytem, then use LOADLIN
to boot the vmlinuz with the option "text."
> When I wanted to install Mandrake 7.2 onto a too-big HD (>528M, 486) in a
> machine with no CD, I ended up transplanting the HD.
Cloning is always another option, although you might need to built a
custom initrd for different, boot-time hardware/support.
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