Easy WORKAROUND for CDROM Boot Image insanity

[Phil Schaffner]

On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 10:11, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 17:49, William Hooper wrote:
> > John Dee said:
> > > William Hooper wrote:
> > >
> > >> Phil Schaffner said:
> > >>
> > >>>Cool!  Beats the vmlinuz/initrd.img/grub method discussed earlier by
> > >>>giving you the whole boot.iso environment.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> No it doesn't.  It is the same method as suggested when FC2 Test1 came
> > >> out.
> > >>
> > >
> > > it is?
> > > I wasn't on the list back then.
> 
> Neither was I.
> 
> > > I've been doing net installs like that for a long time :)
> > 
> > Yes, because none of the FC2 test releases have had floppy images.  Not
> > that it lessens the usefulness of it, just pointing out that it doesn't
> > beat the "vmlinuz/initrd.img/grub method discussed earlier", it is the
> > same method.
> 
> 
> I beg to differ.  :-)  I was referring to the method in
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2004-February/msg00445.html
> which uses isolinux/initrd.img, rather than boot.iso, as the initrd and
> does not give the nice boot menu (and perhaps additional drivers?) that
> is available with the boot.iso approach.  If there's a description of
> using boot.iso as the initrd in the fedora-test-list archives, I can't
> find the right Google search string to locate it.

DUHH never mind - just went back and found out what I misunderstood in
John Dee's post.  William Hooper is (as usual) correct.  My bad.  Sorry
for the additional noise on the list.

Phil