Ubuntu installer

[Vincent Trouilliez]

Wow, sounds great ! Please give us his e-mail, if 1,000 of us ask him
for a Ubuntu version of his floppy, he might consider it !! :o)

Vince


> 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