creating minimal boot image for network installations

[Dmitry Butskoy]

Dan Horák wrote:
> I don't know about a simple way to start a network installation of
> Fedora from USB stick. Creating of boot.img, that server that purpose,
> was stopped by rel-engs some releases ago. I have found a blog post [1]
> that makes possible to transform a boot.iso image into a bootable USB
> stick. But it still requires to download the 200+ MB large boot.iso file
> and do it by hand, while in theory only initrd.img and vmlinuz files
> should be needed and the whole process could be automated. So I have
> created mkbootimg.sh script [2] that automates all required steps and
> has a bootable disk image as a result. It can be transferred to real USB
> disk by the dd command. I find it useful when testing rawhide
> installations, but can be used for releases too. There is naturally no
> warranty for the script, it can eat whole your system :-)
>
>
> 		Dan
>
> [1] http://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/4573.html
> [2] http://fedora.danny.cz/misc/mkbootimg.sh
>
>
>   


See the makebootfat package -- it has in the doc the description of the 
similar procedure...
(AFAIK Anaconda had started to use makebootfat as well).


Regards,
Dmitry Butskoy