From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 08:40:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 08:40:32 -0400 Received: from www.topmail.de ([212.255.16.226]:59039 "HELO www.topmail.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 3 May 2001 08:40:21 -0400 Message-ID: <014a01c0d3ce$3619d440$de00a8c0@homeip.net> From: "mirabilos" To: "Torrey Hoffman" , In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [OT] automated remote install of Linux from WinNT4 Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 12:35:27 -0000 Organization: eccesys.net Linux development MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I'd rather create a minimal partition with no (but != &h80) type, write kind of lilo+kernel+initrd into it and execute that by let it being called from either the MBR or NTLDR, where you can take the images' bootsector as a file. I start lilo from NTLDR 5 by using kind of chaining, which moves its own code and then loads the MBR of the linux boot partition. It's so simple that I wrote it in debug. You might wish to use it when the install's finished. -mirabilos -- EA F0 FF 00 F0 #$@%CARRIER LOST