Easy WORKAROUND for CDROM Boot Image insanity

[John Dee]

Yeah, I've got way too much free time :)

sean bruno wrote:
> That's snazzy...nice job...
> 
> On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 13:38, Phil Schaffner wrote:
> 
>>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
>>
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