Re: Installing from a DOS partition

[Robert Koss <rskoss user iwaynet net>]

On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Scott G. Ainsworth wrote:

> Just make sure that the RedHat directory is in the root of your DOS
> partition and use RedHat's hard disk install option.  The RedHat directory
> is the one that contains the RPMS, instiamge, and base directories.  Of
> course, you also must have space available on the hard disk to create your
> Linux partitions.

You must also have your dos partitions mounted!!

Bob

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joanna Bryson <joannab dai ed ac uk>
> To: redhat-install-list redhat com <redhat-install-list redhat com>
> Date: Wednesday, October 01, 1997 12:42 PM
> Subject: Installing from a DOS partition
> 
> 
> 
> >Sorry for the repetition, I wrote about this last week, I thought I'd
> >try one more time ---
> >
> >I need to install linux on a machine with a very non-standard ethernet
> >card, so I'd like to load the installation into the (largely empty)
> >DOS partition and do the install from there.  The How-To explains how
> >to do this, but it appears that RedHat 4.2 no longer supports all the
> >utilities required.  The utilities are basically hacks around
> >
> > a) finding and quickly ftping the right things to download, and
> > b) making the names the right length for a DOS file system.
> >
> >Does anyone know if there is a currently supported way to do this that
> >I'm just missing?  The install program still certainly has the hard
> >drive option, and one of the directories you need to download still
> >has DOS freindly names.  Am I just missing something?
> >
> >If not, I'll tear my beast apart and try putting a regular ethernet
> >card in it, but I'd really rather not do this.
> >
> >Joanna
> >
> >
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