Re: Installation methods supported by bootdisk.img ...

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Richard Walsh wrote:


> created the boot disk with dd if=./bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k,
> etc.  This image file is advertised to work "for all installation types"

If you refer to the README file from the dist/images/ directory, you 
have stopped reading too soon. Just after that line it also says:

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A secondary driver disk will be required for most install types other
than IDE CDROM and HD based installs.

The following driver disks are available:

drvblock.img - Supplemental Block Device Drivers
drvnet.img - Supplemental Network Drivers
pcmciadd.img - PCMCIA Driver Diskette
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Due to the increasing size of the kernels and modules, they no longer 
fit on one floppy, therefore the split. One solution is to boot from a 
CD/DVD which has enough space for the kernel plus any modules.

> which should request a fully dhcp driven installation in which my
> server supplies the IP address, the location of the kickstart file,
> etc., and just runs.

You might want to try a PXE installation instead. In
dist/images/pxeboot you can find the kernel and initrd image that need
to be served by the tftp server.

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