On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 04:09:47PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > that is, am i safe in assuming that the install process is done with > all of the isolinux/ stuff so that the repartitioning won't hurt > anything? that *seems* to be the case, but i'd rather know for sure. > thanks. First of all, it's much easier to just use the vmlinuz and initrd from images/pxeboot. These are the same files as the ones on the boot.iso image, but you don't have to go to the trouble of loopback mounting to get to them. When grub loads the kernel and initrd from the hard disk, it places them in memory. The files are only needed on the disk at boot time. After the installation process is finished you can totally repartition/format the disk without any trouble. You just won't be able to boot into the installer again if you nuke the filesystem or bootloader setup... But hopefully you're replacing everything with a bootloader for the freshly installed system anyway. Cheers, Matt
