No cd/floppy install?

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

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Søren Hauberg wrote:

| Hi,
|
| tor, 23 09 2004 kl. 16:40 +0200, skrev Fabio Massimo Di Nitto:
| [snip]
|
|> Perhaps you can use a netinstall? You can download the vmlinuz
|> and initrd.gz from here:
|>
|>
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/warty/main/daily-installer-i386/current/images/netboot/
|>
|>
|> configure your bootloader to use them.
|>
|> Reboot into them and if the netcard is recognized you can go
|> further and complete the installation.
|
| I downloaded vmlinuz and initrd.gz from the above link and added
| the following to lilo.conf:
|
| image  = /boot/vmlinuz_ubuntu initrd = /boot/initrd_ubuntu.gz root
| = /dev/hda1 label  = "ubuntu" read-only
|
| ran lilo, rebooted, and selected "ubuntu". Then I got something
| like
|
| Loading ubuntu........ (lots of dots) BIOS data checked succesfully
|
|
| And then a black screen and nothing happens.
|
| Did I do something wrong or....
|
You need to add:

append="DEBCONF_PRIORITY=high vga=normal ramdisk_size=10240
root=/dev/rd/0 init=/linuxrc devfs=mount,dall rw"

or something similar.. I don't remember exactly the lilo sintax.

Fabio

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