Guest ramotswe Posted July 28, 2004 Report Share Posted July 28, 2004 (edited) Hi folks, i'm trying to install a mdk9.0 on my laptop, but the challanges are the following : - i don't have a floppy driver - the cdrom drive isn't bootable (or the bios doesn't allow it) - i already have a linux installed (caldera), with lilo for the bootloader. I didn't find executable on the cd to launch from caldera so i tried to add a boot image to lilo to fake the bootable cd or floppy: - i copied the cdrom.img into the /boot directory - added following files into the lilo.conf: image=/boot/cdrom.img label = install-mdk And when i run lilo, i got : "Kernel too big" (or something like that) for the cdrom image. So what are the workaround ? Thanks in advance Edited August 3, 2004 by ramotswe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted July 28, 2004 Report Share Posted July 28, 2004 I havent done this but I think the cdrom.img is a 1.4MB floppy image which is copied to a floppy using dd (or rawwrite under windows) since you dont have one what you might be able to do is try mounting the boot image of the cdroms... you should have a .iso file and this can be mounted like a file system. mkdir /mnt/disk1 (etc) then mount -o loop -t iso9660 /home/mdkdisk1.iso /mnt/disk1/ (repeat for all Cds ) from here you have a couple of options.... you can chroot /mnt/disk1 and try installing from there.... or you can do what you were trying and copy the cdroms /boot stuff to the caldera /boot then edit lilo ... the image with be the /boot/vmlinuz (on the CD) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ramotswe Posted July 28, 2004 Report Share Posted July 28, 2004 Thanks for fast answer ! you should have a .iso file and this can be mounted like a file system. mkdir /mnt/disk1 (etc) then mount -o loop -t iso9660 /home/mdkdisk1.iso /mnt/disk1/ (repeat for all Cds ) from here you have a couple of options.... you can chroot /mnt/disk1 and try installing from there.... I can just mount the real cd (mount /mnt/cdrom), but how can i install from here ? Which command should i launch, i don't see any setup/install or other command ? I don't have the real cd here, but this is a link to what can be found on the cd : Mdk9.0 cd 1 or you can do what you were trying and copy the cdroms /boot stuff to the caldera /boot then edit lilo ...the image with be the /boot/vmlinuz (on the CD) On the cd, there is no /boot directory (might be in booting sector or something like that), but will the chroot create one ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ramotswe Posted August 3, 2004 Report Share Posted August 3, 2004 Finally i found a solution, i added the image from the correct directory: /isolinux where the good images of the kernel are. So i added it to lilo and ran it...... But my old laptop hasn't enough memory: 16Mo so i have to try another dirstrib... Anyway, thanks, and maybe i'll be back with new hardware for mdk10 or 11 or... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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