Re: Boot/installing from NFS

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Date: 02/05/04

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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 22:43:25 -0800 (PST)

    I think U should search for the dd command options, i mean as of how to give them in order to create the boot floppy. Pls feel free to ask me if U still cannot find it. It's there in the Redhat linux customization guide which is available in redhat docs.
    Hope that helps

    linux1.ca> wrote:
    On February 3, 2004 11:06 pm, Lawrence wrote:
    > Hi:
    >
    > I am trying to setup booting/installing from NFS on RedHat 8.0. I have
    > machines that that do not have CD-ROM drives only floppy drives.
    >
    > I used rewrite to copy the bootnet.img file to a floppy at the DOS
    > prompt under Windows 2000. When I try to boot from the floppy I am
    > getting a "Boot failed:please change disk and press any key to continue"
    >
    > The point of this entire exercise is to be able to insert my floppy into
    > these macbines, get some interface where I point to the boot image on
    > the NFS server and get these machines installed.
    >
    > Can someone help?
    >
    > Thanks,
    > Tee

    Hi,
    do you mean rawrite?
    I have had no problems with nfs installs (lots cause I use iso images as I
    have no burner) but always use a linux box to create the boot floppy with dd.

    If you have a plain DOS boot disk with cd support on it (like dos 5 or 6 and
    an atapi cd configed on it), you could use that to get to the cd's dosutils
    area and use rawrite from their incase w2k is doing something evil.

    I suppose you could boot the win box with the red Hat cd, then alt-f2 to a
    shell and create the floppy there with dd. I'm presuming dd would be availble
    but have not tried it. 

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Pete Nesbitt, rhce
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