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