On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 05:26, gregory mott wrote: > i want to put an old laptop to use, but it has neither a working cd nor > floppy. it works fine via the pcmcia nic. > > the crux of the problem is getting the installer to install via that > pcmcia nic, with no floppy by which to load the pcmcia drivers. > > it would seem in principle i should be able to prepare a special > initrd.img containing whatever is needed in the way of pcmcia drivers, > but how would i get the install program, whether anaconda or miniconda, > to use those drivers? is there a way short of hacking the installer > source? >
If you need to do something to the initrd see if this helps: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/KickStart-HOWTO-9.html It has been a while but seems like I did a pcmcia install once using the bootnet.img and it just worked. Out of curiosity, What OS is on the machine now and how are you going to get this image to boot? I have copied the vmlinux and initrd to a harddrive and told lilo to boot it but have never done it from an os other than linux. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
