On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 10:33, perthie wrote:
> i was planning on using an ftp install in the first place, but i have
> to boot into an installer before i can install. hence the problem... i
> cant boot from a cdrom, so i need an alternate method of booting to a
> 4 mb image.
In addition to the 4MB boot.iso (ISO9660 Yellow Book) in the ./images
directory, there is a 6MB bootdisk.img (FAT). You can "dd" that to any
other bootable device, be it a Floptical/120MB removable, USB EEPROM
(Flash or other solid state) storge dongle/key, USB or Firewire disk,
etc...
The USB solid state device seems to be the most popular (and portable),
as long as the mainboard supports it, but you use the 6MB "bootdisk.img"
file, _not_ the 4MB "boot.iso" file. A USB CD-ROM is the second most
popular, although you use the 4MB "boot.iso" file for that.
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