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Re: Parted w/o boot disk
From: |
Glenn McGrath |
Subject: |
Re: Parted w/o boot disk |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Dec 2000 10:19:24 +1100 |
Dave Waller wrote:
>
> I want to install linux on my VAIO notbook and it is w/o a floppy or
> cdrom.
>
> What I need to do first is use parted to split the d: drive into a linux
> disk. Which I know how to do.
>
> I am having trouble now with the boot disk part. What is type is the
> bootdisk, I have tried fat, vfat, minix, and ext2. What I want to do is
> use loadlin from a command prompt to load the correct kernel and root
> image, which I want to get off the bootdisk.
>
> Dave Waller
>
I think the root image will have to be the initrd.
I think linux needs a patch to be able to load a root image from a
loopback device.
Glenn
- Parted w/o boot disk, Dave Waller, 2000/12/28
- Re: Parted w/o boot disk, Andrew Clausen, 2000/12/28
- Re: Parted w/o boot disk,
Glenn McGrath <=
- Re: Parted w/o boot disk, Andrew Clausen, 2000/12/28
- Re: Parted w/o boot disk, Glenn McGrath, 2000/12/28
- Re: Parted w/o boot disk, Andrew Clausen, 2000/12/28
- Re: Parted w/o boot disk, Glenn McGrath, 2000/12/28
- Re: Parted w/o boot disk, Andrew Clausen, 2000/12/29
- Re: Parted w/o boot disk, Glenn McGrath, 2000/12/29