Re: [cooker-amd64] Installing from internet

[Michael Riss]

On Friday 06 February 2004 13:26, Zac Slade wrote:
> Michael Riss wrote:
> >- get a floppy image for network installation, either
> >  "cooker/amd64/images/network.img" or
> >  "cooker/amd64/images/network_usb.img"
> >  copy the image to a floppy disk with
> >  dd if=network.img of=/dev/fd0
>
> I noticed that other distros offer .iso boot images for CD booting and I
> was hoping that mandrake could start doing the same for cooker.  I've
> run into several situations where a CD-ROM was available to boot from
> where a floppy did not exist.  It would make my life a lot easier
> especially in testing.

advanced:

Have a look at the mkisofs man page, search for "El Torito".
Use the network.img as eltorito_boot_image and you should
get a bootable network install CD.

cu
Michi