Re: [LI] Alternative for Network boot disk

[Chetan Kumar S <chetansk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 25 Dec 1999 skhader@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hi joesph,
> This should help you. Do this after restarting to MS-DOS mode.
> 
> loadlin vmlinuz initrd=bootnet.img

The above line by Khader is correct one, also if rawrite fails, if U have
access to a linux machine, just use dd to create boot disk.

dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 

This should help U in getting started ..

Thanks
Chetan S


> 
> or if this fails then try
> 
> loadlin initrd=bootnet.img
> 
> HTH
>      Khader
> 
> ----------------------------------   @}--------
> Syed Khader Vali                  Debian 2.2.1 ( potato )
> skhader@xxxxxxxxxx             Kernel 2.3.34
> # 91-80-5262355                Extn:2527
> 
> 
> Joseph Bill <billbose@xxxxxxxxx> on 12/25/99 04:54:53 pm
> initrd.img, vmlinuz, etc in the m/c where I want to install RH6.1.
> Now, how will I go about installing Linux via the network without
> preparing the network boot disk?
> 
> 
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