What I want is to make the partioning and formating automatically which is very easily done with kickstart. And I have to install the dos boot image using pxe and tftp (or similar) because I want to install the image easily on many computers. Otherwise I could have made a normal dos boot floppy as you suggested. >>Hi! >>I'm helping my MS Windows friend and I want to automatically repartion >>to fat fs >>and format the entire hd and then install a dos boot image, and no >>Linux >>filesystem or rpms whatsoever :-(, on the hd. Is it possible to use >>kickstart >>and a postscript for this? > >It may or may not be possible to do this - I don't know. However, if I >understand you correctly you want to make a clean hard disk and then >install dos. >The easiest way to do this is to make an msdos boot floppy. Copy the >following files out of windows (use a find to get them if you don't know >where they are) and splosh them onto a formatted disk: msdos.sys >config.sys config.dos autoexec.bat format.exe command.com fdisk.exe >sys.exe. >You may get it to work with fewer files. >Then boot off the floppy and run fdisk /mbr to clear the master boot >record - NB this will stop you from booting normally - once you've done >that run fdisk again to make a partition. Then you want a dos compatible >filing system on there so run format c: and finally to get the system >files on there you'll need to run sys c:. >You should then be able to boot into dos on the hard disk. NB You may >want to copy the mscdex file to get the cdrom drivers as well - >otherwise you might find you can't boot from cd. > >cheers > >-- >Geoff Dolman >JDRF/WT Diabetes and Inflammation Laboratory >Cambridge Institute for Medical Research >University of Cambridge >http://www-gene.cimr.cam.ac.uk/todd/ > > > >_______________________________________________ >Kickstart-list mailing list >Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > -- Get your firstname@lastname email at http://Nameplanet.com/?su
