Re: SysAdmin mini-CD

[Chris Kloiber <ckloiber redhat com>]

Not being able to boot from CD would put a serious kink into using the 
Sysadmin CD. I do not believe Bero made a boot floppy for it.

-- 
Chris Kloiber, RHCE
Enterprise Support
Red Hat, Inc.

On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, E Neigma wrote:

> On Monday 19 November 2001 04:41, you wrote:
> > Well you could do that if you have the install images NFS mounted 
> > somewhere. If you start and "install" by NFS and just get into the stage 2 
> > of the install (when you can use ALT-F2 to get a bash prompt) you would be 
> > able to (with alot of work) locate and mount your partitons. Is there a 
> > reason you can't use the SysAdmin CD? I came into this comversation late.
> 
> 
> Well, I didn't have it at the time;-)
> 
> I've also not boned up on using it on a system that doesn't boot from CD; I 
> presume there's a floppy image there to use.
> 
> I've now managed to boot from floppy, specifying 'linux rescue' and going 
> through the configuration process to the point I have the 7.2 install tree 
> mounted NFS.
> 
> I was then able to mount a second directory from a second server.
> 
> And untar and lilo etc.