installing ubuntu without bootable CD rom drive
Rich Duzenbury
rduz-ubuntu at theduz.com
Wed May 25 18:46:38 UTC 2005
On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 11:22 +0200, Thomas Kaiser wrote:
> > It would be handy if I can boot into DOS, and then start the installer
> > on the CD.
>
> Take a look a "loadlin" (google). This is a linux loader for DOS.
>
> The kernel and initrd.gz is in the "install" directory of the install
> CD. A command like this should may do the job:
>
> >loadlin D:\install\vmlinuz root=/dev/ram rw initrd=C:\install\initrd.gz
>
> I don't know if the linux kernel does detect your CD-Rom, but you will see.
>
> Regards, Thomas
>
I fiddled and fussed and never was able to get this to run. Always got
a kernel panic after a couple of seconds. Turns out that both knoppix
and ubuntu recognize the cd-rom drive just fine, once card services are
loaded.
I did use loadlin, but I used it to fire up the network install. Much
slower and more painful, but I at least got ubuntu loaded.
Thanks for your suggestion.
Regards,
Rich
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