Re: [LI] Alternative for Network boot disk

["Anand Raman" <anand.raman@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi joseph,
Well i installed SuSE linux over the network ..
I created the boot and root disks as needed and there was this file called modules having all the network modules for a variety of network cards ..
After the machine booted using the boot disk .. i selected a network install(NFS) from the menu and loaded the modules for the network card .. Things were pretty cool after that ..
I think u can also try a similar approach ..
Bye
Anand Raman

Saturday owner-linux-india@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said

> Dear Linuxers,
> 
> I know that we should use bootnet.img(image file) and rawrite.exe to
> prepare the network boot disk for installation of Linux via Network File
> Server(NFS), instead of a CDROM drive.
> I already have a bootable MS-DOG partition with loadlin.exe, bootnet.img, 
> 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?
> I ask this question coz, for some reason rawrite.exe fails to copy the
> image properly to the floppy disk(s), in my case.
 

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