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[Peter Toft <pto@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On man, 2003-10-13 at 22:43, Björn Lundin wrote:
> Peter Toft wrote:
> 
> > Antag at jeg har en windows-maskine med netkort og uden
> > floppy eller cdrom og jeg ville have en mandrake installeret.
> > 
> > Skulle det ikke være muligt at hive et bootfloppy-image ind
> > fx. ftp://sunsite.dk/pub/os/linux/mandrake/9.1/i586/images/hd.img
> > og boote dette under windows (med passende tryllestøv) - og
> > installere den vej rundt.
> > 
> > Kunne man evt. bruge en loadlin?
> > 
> Läser man install.htm på mdk:s installationscd, borde det gå, det är ett av
> de supportade sätten. Sen blir det ftp/nfs/http installation, men du måste
> få maskinen att boota med hd.img


Jeg læser dog dette som at man kan have alle RPM-pakkerne mv. liggende
på en eksisterende partition, men selve opstarten er via et floppy-drev,
og så har jeg tabt.

> 
> "
> 3. Other installation methods
> 
> If for any reason the previous methods do not fit your needs (you want to
> perform a network install, an install from pcmcia devices or ...), you will
> also need to make a boot floppy: 
> 
> Under Linux (or other modern UNIX systems) type at prompt:
>  $ dd if=xxxxx.img of=/dev/fd0
> 
> cdrom.img       install from CD-ROM
> hd.img          install from hard-disk 
>                 (from a Linux, Windows, or ReiserFS filesystem)
> network.img     install from ftp/nfs/http
> pcmcia.img      install from pcmcia devices (warning, most pcmcia network
>                 adapters are now directly supported from network.img)
> hdcdrom_usb.img 
>                 install from a hard-disk or a cdrom connected to USB
> network_gigabit_usb.img 
>                 install from network with a gigabit or USB adapter
> blank.img       install using your own Linux kernel
> "
> 
> /Björn
> 
>  
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