Hi!
I would like if there was an all.img with all the boot stuff available
in cooker. There was one at some time in the beta stage, but now it is
gone.
I think you are looking for all.rdz?
ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/isolinux/alt0/all.rdz
It needs a kernel too:
ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/isolinux/alt0/vmlinuz
Could I use such an image from a small hd partition to boot from?
Yes, and I think this is covered in the CookerHowto on the Wiki.
What is the best method to boot of disk?
Save it in my home partition which normally survives between installs?
If you have a local cooker mirror, you can boot it straight from there. I
have a seperate /boot on my desktop, so I put things there. On my laptop,
I stuck it and my lilo.conf in /home (along with a script to reinstall
lilo, since I did this a few times).
Save it on my windows partition, which also survives, and is bootable?
Is there some setup that would be easy for a newbie?
Download to ypur windows partition and then boot from there?
(may be only a win98 thing, XP may not allow that)
Yes, this should be possible with loadlin (but this seems not to be in
/dosutils any more), but not for 2k/XP, and probably not NT either. I
don't think they can boot linux directly :-(.
Regards,
Buchan
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