Oops, repost to the list just in case it is usefull to anybody else. sorry Gunther, you got it twice. (grmblrememberuselistreply) On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 02:37:01PM +0100, Gunther Stammwitz wrote:
Most of my computers don't have floppy tapes but cdroms. I'm in need for a suse boot-cd that allows me to load the necessary modules for my nic and then run the ftp-installation.
dont the suse install CD1 do that? ok, yes, you have to do some choose from menu, press enter, ..., but it worked for me.(iirc)
any ideas ?
well, you could make your own diskimage with exactly those modules you need
I think the limit of 2.88 megs is the problem.....
It would be nice to select the harddrive-emulation and copy all files in a "harddrive" folder. So far no problem, but how can I copy the lilo boot-record on the cd ? Any ideas ?
use cdrecord -b you may find these links usefull: The Linux Bootdisk HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/ CD-Writing HOWTO http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html the FAQs section in http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CDROM-HOWTO/ howto make 2.88MB el torito floppy disk images http://rescuecd.sourceforge.net/288.html a post with a script mkbimage for use with the grub boot loader. you could change it to use lilo if you prefer; I remember there where problems with root on LV whith other loaders than lilo when I last tried to do it... If you dont use LVM or they fixed it or I did it wrong ... just try it out. http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2001/debian-hurd-200110/msg00136.html I did not try hd-emulation myself, but If you combine the info from the above links you should be able to do it. probably the easy way is to make a boot image with ATAPI driver, do some sort of "intelligent" init script and load modules from CD. I wonder wy you wont use the suse CDs though. hope that helps, lars