Booting off cdrom to do a network install

Taylor, ForrestX forrestx.taylor at intel.com
Thu Jan 22 00:24:38 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 04:23, Chadley Wilson wrote:
> The first obstacle I encountered was with the on-board savage S3 km133
> driver,
> It seems there's a bug in BIOS causing the screen to blank-out as X
> starts,
> The work around for install is on boot you type "linux lowres" but
> when
> booting from cdrom for NFS or other media installation you need to
> pass
> the "linux askmethod" option, the question is how do you pass both?
> I have tried using kickstart but the boot disk doesn't support my
> network card (rhinefet.so) where the CD does.
> any suggestions, or work around?

You can either type "linux lowres askmethod" at the boot prompt, or use
the boot.iso (not the bootdisk.img) to do an NFS install.  The boot.iso
is a CD image.

Forrest





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