Re: missing boot disk.img

[Japheth Cleaver <cleaver ixpres net>]

It creates a problem for those with large numbers of machines w/o CD-ROM 
drives. Many motherboard+fedora combos can't boot successfully from a USB 
CDROM ; yet it's trivially easy to walk around with a USB floppy and run 
your installs from that (when paired with a local kickstart file, or even a 
remote one).

Of course, the eventual solution is to NetBoot with PXE and run kickstart 
off of that with your DHCP server -- but lots of folks aren't quite there 
yet or don't need that kind of infrastructure.

Perhaps there would be a way to keep an older kernel for the boot floppy 
OS, but allowing the updated anaconda scripts to install FC2. All we're 
really doing is trampoline-ing until we can load the stage2.img over the 
network, right?

JC Cleaver




At 12:11 PM 2/13/2004, Justin M. Forbes wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 09:03:57PM +0100, Gerrit wrote:
> >
> > according to images/README, there should be a file bootdisk.img. But
> > there isn't. I want to install from network and creating a bootflop is
> > so much easier than a boot-cdrom...
> >
> I wouldn't say I've been missing it Bob... Which distribution are you
> trying to install? For FC1 AMD64, and every arch under FC2 bootdisk.img is
> gone, the kernel is now too big to fit on a floppy.
>
> Justin
>
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