hd install, help?

[(``-_-´´) -- Fernando]

On 9/20/07, news.shehu at gmx.net <news.shehu at gmx.net> wrote:
> Fernando,
>
> You wrote:
> > the contents of the iso are on my /home partition:
> > [CODE]$ ls /home/gutsy/
> > -rw-r--r--  1 bugabundo root 239M 2007-09-11 23:09 boot.img
> > drwxr-sr-x 10 bugabundo root 4.0K 2007-09-11 15:25 disc/
> > -rw-r--r--  1 bugabundo root  15M 2007-09-11 23:09 initrd
> > -rw-r--r--  1 bugabundo root 1.7M 2007-09-11 15:30 vmlinuz
> > [/CODE]
>
> I always do my installs that way, never burning cds.  Here's what I've
> got using a rather similar setup as you have:
>
> ls -l /home/gutsy-alt
> total 15M
> -rw-r--r-- 1 sad  sad  7.5M 2007-09-02 14:17 boot.img.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 sad  sad  5.7M 2007-09-02 14:17 initrd.gz
> -rw-r--r-- 1 sad  sad  1.7M 2007-09-02 14:17 vmlinuz
>
> As you can see, you DO NOT have the right files.  Grab the ones here;
> note that they are on a directory below the one you accessed.
>
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/

Thanks. I already fixed that.

>
> Be sure to place the alternate iso at /home . It is important to note
> that you should only use a partition that will not be touched by the
> installer.
>
> > here are a few tried I made on grub:
> > [CODE]title           HD instal
> > root          (hd0,4)
> > kernel                /gutsy/vmlinux root=e3740d46-69f9-4a4b-8f5c-707d262369a4 ro verbose
> > initrd                /gutsy/initrd
> > boot
>
> Here's the entry you need to boot:
>
> # gutsy installer
> title Install Ubuntu Gutsy
> root (hd0,4)
> kernel /gutsy-alt/vmlinuz vga=normal ramdisk_size=14972 root=/dev/rd/0 rw --
> initrd /gutsy-alt/initrd.gz

didnt my kernel line look just like that, but i'll try again.
Still with my current setup (not the one that I first posted) I'm
getting a really strange behaviour after I select the SSH Server and
UbuntuDesktop package.
Can u confirm?

also I found another bug: if I use /home for the iso and boot files,
it cannot be mount by the partition installer.


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