This would be a GREAT way for some people who have windows installed on a laptop but no cdrom or floppy to install Mandrake. That is, if a small program could be made to install lilo from windows w/ these settings.
> I don't have a floppy drive. Thanks to Buchan for showing me this. I > simplified his lilo.conf stanzas somewhat. > > I have this in my /etc/lilo.conf > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-hdimg > label=hd-install > root=/dev/ram3 > initrd=/boot/hd.rdz > append="rmadisk_size=32000" > vga=791 > read-only > > > In order to put the required files from hd.img into /boot, I do the > following: > > su - > cd <to where hd.img is located> > mount -t vfat hd.img ~/tmp/ -o loop=/dev/loop3 > cp ~/tmp/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz-hdimg > cp ~/tmp/hd.rzd /boot > umount ~/tmp > /sbin/lilo > exit > > Now you can select "hd-install" from your lilo boot menu and that will > start > the installer. > You will need to know what partition stores your cooker mirror and the > path to > your cooker/i586/ directory, relative to that partition. > > This is a very way to install Mandrake :-) > > Narfi. > > -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service
