Ubuntu installer

[Pybe]

On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 01:56 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> > Ubuntu is the only OS I know of that has an answer to that problem...
> > They will send you a pre burnt CD for Free! :-)
> 
> 
> And, also, sending free CD's, or making your own, doesn't solve the
> ecology side of things ! It requires material and energy to make them
> and transport them, then you bin them after a while, makes the dump yard
> fill quicker. Downloading it I think is zillions of time more
> ecological ! :o)
> With broadband becoming cheaper and faster, soon, we will all have a
> 20Mbps link minimum and we will then be able to install from the network
> directly. Only the people living outside cities hence without broadband,
> should be allowed to order a free CD  ! ;o)
> 

Every one on the list email this really nice guy who made a boot floppy
that can install directly from an iso image on a fat or linux partition
(works great for Fedora). I tried to fiddle it to install ubuntu for me
but couldn't and ended up doing a net install booted from my existing
fedora grub conf.

Any way here is an email from him in response to my asking for help to
get it work with an Ubuntu iso (05/01/2005):

Hi James.  I'm glad that GLBF has been useful for you.  Yours is the
first feedback I've gotten on it, so I've kind of been wondering whether
it works great for everyone or just doesn't work at all ;)

I'm actually working on this exact problem at the moment, with the
Sentry firewall distribution.  It has a similarly long list of necessary
kernel options that are being ignored.  Although the README file says
otherwise, adding more than one kernel option, even with quoting, is
completely broken.  I've been able to create distro-specific versions
for my own use to work around this problem, but I'm hoping to have a
real fix in the next couple of weeks.

Sorry I can't really suggest a workaround at the moment.  Thank you for
reporting this problem.

-Ben
Dees Consulting
info at deesconsulting.com
www.deesconsulting.com

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