Easy WORKAROUND for CDROM Boot Image insanity

[Phil Schaffner]

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.