[RHCE] Boot process changed in RHL beta

[Jason Tower]

on a somewhat related note, a friend of mine recently installed suse=20
enterprise 8.1.  if you boot the cd and pass the 'vnc=3D1' parameter you =
can=20
install the OS using vnc.  that's right, *install*.  you gotta admit, tha=
t's=20
pretty cool, almost as cool as LVM on top of RAID :-)

jason

On Thursday 20 February 2003 12:25, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> Last night we talked quite a bit about the boot process with the two
> boot disks (boot.img and bootnet.img), and the driver disks.   You migh=
t
> be interested to know that this process has changed somewhat with the
> new beta of Red Hat Linux ("Phoebe 3" or 8.0.94).  So if you take the
> RHCE after the next version is released, be sure to go over this item
> again!
>
> If you're interested in seeing the new setup, take a look at:
> ftp://ftp.trilug.org/pub/linux/redhat/linux/beta/phoebe/en/os/i386/imag=
es/
>
> As you can see from the README, there is just one boot floppy, and you
> need a driver disk for network installs.  The other cool thing is the
> "boot.iso".  I haven't played with this yet, but I think it's an
> "ISOLinux" boot CD image that will allow all methods of installation.
> So this way you can do a network install by using this special boot.iso
> -- needed if there's no floppy drive.  ("Syslinux", which relies on the
> 1.44 MB El Torido floppy image, is no longer used in the 8.0.94 beta.)
>
> --Jeremy
>
>
>
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