Anders, et al --
...and then Anders Karlsson said...
%
% On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 12:09, David T-G wrote:
% > Hi, all --
%
% Lo,
*grin*
%
% > I have a tricky machine -- no CD, no video, no keyboard, no floppy -- on
% > which I'd nonetheless like to install SuSE 8.1. The machine is currently
% > running a Linux From Scratch build, and I have an alternate root slice
% > ready to go with plenty of space in /home for a copy of the DVD.
%
% How about you make a bootp combined install server and PXE boot over the
% network instead? That ought to be one of the better ways to install that
% box.
Hmmm... That's not a bad idea. I'll have to check to see if the quad
card that it has can do a network boot, but that might get me there.
Has SuSE yet gotten their equivalent of kickstart going?
%
% > Any idea how I can proceed? Can I perhaps do a little chroot magic and
% > start the install?
%
% Possibly. You would have to investigate what the bootimage and initrd on
% the DVD actually does, and then mimic that.
OK. And initrd is just the initial ram disk, which should be an ext2
image, right?
%
% Rgds,
%
% --
% Anders Karlsson