On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 16:06 -0500, greg wm wrote: > hi, > > i'm looking inside boot.img (on CentOS 4.1). when this is burned to a > CD and booted, anaconda is invoked (eventually). > > but from where? it isn't in the initrd.img, or if it is, i can't find it.. > The initrd.img only contains the early loader which pulls in and loopback mounts the *stage*.img files from RedHat/base directory (maybe that's Centos/base or something in Centos) which contain all the beef, and then start the "real" anaconda. > why do i care? i want to remotely install without any CDs. i'm trying > to find the code that runs when you boot from CD.. You'll probably want to look into PXE installations for that: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-pxe.html - Panu -
