Re: Installing without a CD drive

[Paul Howarth <paul city-fan org>]

On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 11:32 +1000, Rohan Walsh wrote:
> If you have an existing installation:
> 
> mount iso as loop device
> mount -t iso9660 /path/to/iso /tmp/fc5iso -o loop
> (you have to mkdir /tmp/fc5iso
> cp /tmp/fc5iso/isolinux/vmlinuz
> /boot/vmlinuz-fc5install
> 
> cp /tmp/fc5iso/isolinux/initrd.img
> /boot/initrd-fc5install.img
> 
> edit grub.conf
> here is an entry I have used, you will need to edit it
> to suit:
> title fc5 install
>         root (hd0,3)
>         kernel /boot/vmlinuz-fc5install ro r
> root=LABEL=/mnt/hda4
>         initrd /boot/initrd-fc5install .img
> 
> boot into fc5 install, use linux askmethod at the
> prompt, hard drive installation

I did it a similar way yesterday for my home file and print server, a
K6-200 with 128MB RAM. Except I did an NFS install instead of a hard
disk install. It took 9 hours to complete, and then anaconda crashed out
at the last stage when it was trying to update the bootloader. I suspect
this was because of the "ro" option; the installer didn't appear to have
remounted /boot read-write at any point. Strange. Not too difficult to
recover from though.

Paul.