On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 10:40, David Nedrow wrote: > I've begun a document that details how to create a boot floppy for > Fedora installs on systems that don't have CD-ROM drives, etc. > Several people suggested I participate in the docs list to see about > adding it into the doc stream. > It's already in Docbook XML format, since that's what we do all of our > documentation in at work. > Several people have already contributed additions, including a script to > pretty much handle the gruntwork automatically. > I'm including a text transform of the first draft. > I haven't lloked at the Fedora doc guidelines yet, but if I remember > correctly they're pretty straightforward, so it should be relatively > easy for me to jimmy things around if necessary. [...snip...] I only see a few style problems such as voice, etc. Perhaps the document could also include a bit noting that you can simply take .ko modules from an existing installation if you have one running that kernel version. I used to do this a few years ago when presented with the same problem; I don't know of any relevant 2.6-related issue with that procedure. If I can make one small suggestion for the "Create new initrd" section... all those command lines seem a bit wearying. Why not: cd ~/bootwork/initrd-old find -type f | cpio -pamd ../initrd-new # aahhh... cd .. cp anaconda-ks.cfg initrd-new/ks.cfg cp -a modules.cgz initrd-new/modules umount initrd-new gzip -c9 initrd > initrd.img cp initrd.img floppy Just a thought, there. To me, this is a good idea for a doc, since I've taught it manually to a bunch of people myself, a couple of them pretty recently, in fact. If you need someone to edit, feel free to send me the source when you feel you've tinkered with it sufficiently. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE
