Re: [Cooker] hd.img without floppy ?

2003-08-20 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 04:11:13PM +0200, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:22:42PM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > Keld Jørn Simonsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:14:02PM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > > > Keld Jørn Simonsen

Re: [Cooker] hd.img without floppy ?

2003-08-20 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Keld Jørn Simonsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > We normally use vga=788, maybe this is the origin of the problem? > > tried it, the problem still persists. > I find it quite strange, given that the same (hd version) > files worked fine from floppy. Any other ideas? No :(.. -- Guillaume Cott

Re: [Cooker] hd.img without floppy ?

2003-08-19 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 03:23:47PM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Keld Jørn Simonsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 04:11:13PM +0200, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:22:42PM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > > > Keld Jørn Simonsen <[

Re: [Cooker] hd.img without floppy ?

2003-08-18 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Keld Jørn Simonsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 04:11:13PM +0200, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:22:42PM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > > Keld Jørn Simonsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > Why does it not recognize my screen, th

Re: [Cooker] hd.img without floppy ?

2003-08-15 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 04:11:13PM +0200, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:22:42PM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > Keld Jørn Simonsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Why does it not recognize my screen, the beta 2 cd 1 booted > > > without problems . > > > > > >

Re: [Cooker] hd.img without floppy ?

2003-08-14 Thread Buchan Milne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank Griffin wrote: > Just an idle, uninformed question, but is there any way to tell a > Mandrake install boot (whether from CD or floppy with maybe old hd.img > on it) to "reboot-in-place" using the hd.img from a local disk cooker > mirror ? The ob

Re: [Cooker] hd.img without floppy ?

2003-08-14 Thread Frank Griffin
Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: Could all of that be put into a tarball with every update, or maybe in a rpm? It is easier and faster to just do everything on the harddisk, in stead of writing floppies or even burning cd's. And in the case of floppies, a had disk install can be from a bigger initrd dis

Re: [Cooker] hd.img without floppy ?

2003-08-14 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 09:50:45PM -0400, Frank Griffin wrote: > Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote: > > >Could all of that be put into a tarball with every update, or maybe in a > >rpm? > > > >It is easier and faster to just do everything on the harddisk, in stead > >of writing floppies or even burning cd

Re: [Cooker] hd.img without floppy ?

2003-08-14 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:14:02PM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Keld Jørn Simonsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > OK, tried it and it worked, sort of... > > > > That is, it could not get my display, need to investigate further... > > > > What is the difference between isoinux/alt

Re: [Cooker] hd.img without floppy ?

2003-08-14 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Keld Jørn Simonsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:14:02PM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > Keld Jørn Simonsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > OK, tried it and it worked, sort of... > > > > > > That is, it could not get my display, need to investigate

Re: [Cooker] hd.img without floppy ?

2003-08-14 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 08:22:42PM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Keld Jørn Simonsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 04:14:02PM +0200, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > > > Keld Jørn Simonsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > > > > OK, tried it and it worked

Re: [Cooker] hd.img without floppy ?

2003-08-14 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Keld [iso-8859-1] Jørn Simonsen wrote: > > > > Try here: > > > > > > http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CookerHowTo#Via_Hard_Disk_or_Network_with_No > > > > Could all of that be put into a tarball with every update, or

Re: [Cooker] hd.img without floppy ?

2003-08-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 03:47, Pierre Jarillon wrote: > Le Jeudi 7 Août 2003 00:57, Frank Griffin a écrit : > > Just an idle, uninformed question, but is there any way to tell a > > Mandrake install boot (whether from CD or floppy with maybe old hd.img > > on it) to "reboot-in-place" using the hd.img

[Cooker] hd.img without floppy ?

2003-08-14 Thread Frank Griffin
Just an idle, uninformed question, but is there any way to tell a Mandrake install boot (whether from CD or floppy with maybe old hd.img on it) to "reboot-in-place" using the hd.img from a local disk cooker mirror ? The object being not to have to create new hd.img boot floppies all of the tim

Re: [Cooker] hd.img without floppy ?

2003-08-14 Thread Eric Fernandez
Pierre Jarillon wrote: This become an important question. More and more computer are shipped without a floppy. Not because of its price, but only because floppy is now useless or impossible (like VIA mini-ITX). I have a laptop without a floppy. Then I create a bootable image with mkisofs -b

Re: [Cooker] hd.img without floppy ?

2003-08-14 Thread Duncan
On Wed 06 Aug 2003 19:47, Pierre Jarillon posted as excerpted below: > Le Jeudi 7 Août 2003 00:57, Frank Griffin a écrit : > > Just an idle, uninformed question, but is there any way to tell a > > Mandrake install boot (whether from CD or floppy with maybe old hd.img > > on it) to "reboot-in-place"

Re: [Cooker] hd.img without floppy ?

2003-08-14 Thread Keld Jørn Simonsen
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 07:06:37AM -0400, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Thursday 07 August 2003 05:24 am, Buchan Milne wrote: > > > See the cooker howto on the wiki, it basically involves > > loopback-mounting the image, coping the initrd image and the kernel out > > the floppy, and adding a lilo boot en

Re: [Cooker] hd.img without floppy ?

2003-08-14 Thread Guillaume Cottenceau
Keld Jørn Simonsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Pixel had an even better solution, which is to use isolinux/alt0 all.rdz > > and vmlinuz. Just take the LILO example from the Wiki page for using > > hd.img, substitute all.rdz for hd.rdz and vmlinuz for vmlinuz-hdimg should not be needed as

Re: [Cooker] hd.img without floppy ?

2003-08-09 Thread Frank Griffin
Thanks everyone, the loopback solution on the Wiki page seems like just the thing I was looking for.

Re: [Cooker] hd.img without floppy ?

2003-08-09 Thread Buchan Milne
On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Keld [iso-8859-1] Jørn Simonsen wrote: > > Try here: > > > > http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/CookerHowTo#Via_Hard_Disk_or_Network_with_No > > Could all of that be put into a tarball with every update, or maybe in a rpm? > It's actually not necessary even, yo

Re: [Cooker] hd.img without floppy ?

2003-08-08 Thread Pierre Jarillon
Le Jeudi 7 Août 2003 00:57, Frank Griffin a écrit : > Just an idle, uninformed question, but is there any way to tell a > Mandrake install boot (whether from CD or floppy with maybe old hd.img > on it) to "reboot-in-place" using the hd.img from a local disk cooker > mirror ? The object being not t

Re: [Cooker] hd.img without floppy ?

2003-08-07 Thread Pixel
Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > See the cooker howto on the wiki, it basically involves > loopback-mounting the image, coping the initrd image and the kernel out > the floppy you can even use isolinux/alt0/{vmlinuz,all.rdz}

Re: [Cooker] hd.img without floppy ?

2003-08-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 07 August 2003 05:24 am, Buchan Milne wrote: > See the cooker howto on the wiki, it basically involves > loopback-mounting the image, coping the initrd image and the kernel out > the floppy, and adding a lilo boot entry for it. Also, with this method, > you can pass more options via LI