Kickstart using USB Flash Drive

[Paul Pianta]

Rebecca.R.Hepper at seagate.com wrote:

>Unfortunately, I need more modules than will fit in the bootdisk.img file.
>I didn't try your exact steps, Jason, but I have my own set of instructions
>that are quite similar.  If I copy in all the modules I need, I fail in the
>last step when moving the initrd.img back to the bootdisk.  Is there a way
>to increase whatever limits the size in this step?
>  
>
If your usb drive is bigger than a floppy (of course it is) then you 
should be able to create an empty "floppy" image that is much bigger 
than a regular one, and then put all of your stuff in that - I'm 
guessing ...

I don't know the exact parameters to pass to 'dd' but it would be 
something like this:

dd if=/dev/zero of=bigFloppy.img bs=1k count=3000
mkfs -t ext2 -F bigFloppy.img

Then you can loop mount your bigFloppy.img and fill it with your goodies.

This is all hypothetical and I have never tried it - just making some 
suggestions ...

pantz

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