Panu Matilainen wrote:
On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 16:06 -0500, greg wm wrote:
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
thx, tho, i should have said without CDs or any server either. if i
understand correctly, the pieces needed to do a hard disk install are
ALMOST all in place. i want to run the install under my already
running, recent, but prior version kernel. if my prior version kernel
is somehow inadequate, i'm happy to unpack something or other and boot it.
-g
