Hi, Richard: I have two computers that (can not|will not) boot from CDROM drive. Hal had a similar setup wherein one of his computers would not boot from its SCSI CDROM (or would not boot some odd release of Slackware-8.1.1 from its SCSI CDROM drive). So I was trying to find a way to copy files from an install .iso CDROM disk to hard disk partition where I could boot from 'scsi.s' boot disk and then tell the prompt boot: mount root=/dev/hdb1 where /dev/hdb1 would be a partition where the install CDROM files were. Then after logging in as 'root', 'setup' could be run to start a new installation.
On the CDROM is /isolinux/initrd.img which I was thinking was a 'root' filesystem. ? Couldn't this file (and others?) be copied to an existing hard disk partition and then booted? Could the entire CDROM be copied to /dev/hdb1 and then use fdisk to set /dev/hdb1 as the active partition and then reboot? There ought to be a way to 'upgrade' to Slackware-8.1 or -9.0 on a system with no bootable CDROM device. There is a /slackware/ directory that can be copied, but where is the 'setup' application? :-| Chuck pa3gcu wrote: > > On Monday 09 June 2003 11:59, Chuck Gelm wrote: > > Hal: > > > > I've created slackware-8.1-iso & slackware-9.0-iso CDROMs. > > I have exhausted attempts to use them as install media > > while booting from a single floppy. > > The idea that has been adopted by Slack for booting from a cdrom is very easy > and AFAIK is going to be keep that way. > Are you saying that your cdrom does not boot the system and/or not find your > hardware properly.?? Yes. I have used the bootdisk & rootdisk method many times and have done a 'nfs' install a few times too. The -8.1 & -9.0 releases require a bootdisk & 5 rootdisks if the computer cannot boot from CDROM. -- more later -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
