gregory mott wrote:
>what do i need to prepare on my working (hence server) box to enable an
>install onto an old laptop with no cd or floppy? i can put arbitrary
>stuff onto it's hard disk via the net with windoze.
>
>it looks like the tricky part is getting the pcmcia nic going by means
>other than a driver floppy.
>
>should/could i prepare myself a special initrd that incorporates the
>pcmcia driver floppy somehow? is there some limit to the size of an
>initrd image? and then how might i get the installation program
>(presumably anaconda) to actually find and use those pcmcia drivers?
>
>
I'm assuming that you want to install 8.0. Try the following:
-copy initrd.img, and vmlinuz from the isolinux from the cdrom to /boot.
Call them vmlinuz.80, and initrd.80.
-add the following to /etc/grub.conf:
title Red Hat installer
root (hd0,0) (NOTE this should the same as your other entries)
kernel /vmlinuz.80 lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=16760
initrd /initrd.80
-reboot and select Red Hat installer
With other version of RH it's much more complex.
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