Re: ks cdrom:

[Brett Schwarz <brett_schwarz yahoo com>]

This *eventually* worked. I tried it a few times, and it still didn't
work, but then I tried it on another machine, and it worked ????

Anyways, thanks for all of your help!


On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 15:17:10 -0800
"Taylor, ForrestX" <forrestx taylor intel com> wrote:


> 
> My original boot.img has 23K free, and the one with the SCSI/440GX has
19K
> free.  I just tried it on the 440GX boot.img, doing this:
> 
> mount -o loop boot-aic7xxx.img boot
> zcat boot/initrd.img > initrd.img
> mount -o loop initrd.img initrd
> cp loader.fixed initrd/sbin/loader
> umount initrd
> gzip -9 initrd.img
> mv initrd.img.gz boot/initrd.img
> 
> df here shows that I have 3.5K left, which means that it uses 15.5K,
which
> you don't have enough room on your original boot.img.  You could try
filling
> up the images and then erasing it:
> 
> cat /dev/zero > initrd/zerofile
> rm initrd/zerofile
> 
> Then umount the initrd image, zip it and put it in the boot image.  Then
do
> it to the boot image:
> 
> cat /dev/zero > boot/zerofile
> rm boot/zerofile
> 
> and see if that works.  I had to do something similar on RH 6.2 which
was
> much tighter than 7.x.
> 
> Forrest
> 

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