Easy WORKAROUND for CDROM Boot Image insanity

[Phil Schaffner]

On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 15:37, John Dee wrote:
> I've got a fun way to do it.
> 
> It requires a working installation of linux though.
> I don't have a cdrom on my linux box.
> 
> download boot.iso
> mkdir /mnt/iso
> mount -o loop boot.iso /mnt/iso
> cp /mnt/iso/isolinux/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz-fedora-install
> cp /mnt/iso/isolinux/initrd.img /boot/initrd-fedora-install.img
> cat >> /boot/grub/grub.conf <<EOF
> title Fedora Install
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-fedora-install ramdisk_size=8192
> initrd /boot/initrd-fedora-install.img
> EOF
> 
> Change drive info as necessary to reflect your drive.
> 
> You should have on reboot an option for "Fedora Install" in your grub 
> menu. Just select that, and should take you right into the install :)

Cool!  Beats the vmlinuz/initrd.img/grub method discussed earlier by
giving you the whole boot.iso environment.  Now I'll have to do another
install just to try it.

Thanks,
Phil