On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:26:10AM -0500, Murthy Kambhampaty wrote:
Warning: Non Super-Difficult-Red-Hat-Solution-Ahead :)
> 1. Install with vanilla RedHat distro (not XFS Installer)
> 2. On your vanilla RedHat system, recompile the kernel with XFS and
> aic79xx support
> 3. Reboot to the new kernel; drop to single user; move partitions
> around; fix lilo
> 4. Reboot to you target system.
or
build a non-modular kernel with all the right magic bits in it (super
easy) and put this on a floppy (cp), use rdev to make the floppy strap
suitably using a ramdisk, usually "rdev -r /dev/fd0 49152 ; rdev
/dev/fd0 /dev/fd0" suffices
boot this disk --- it will prompt for a second disk, at this point
give it a Debian rootfs image on a floppy and follow the prompts...
sorry i can't tell you how to do this with Red Hat, I tried to find
out last night how this was done and everyone tells me it can't be,
so, if someone does know of a Red Hat solution then perhaps post it
here and maybe I'll compile a list of 'more difficult' XFS
installation methods or something
the other suggestion i have is since most network cards can PXE boot,
then PXE boot a kernel which mounts / via nfs --- again, I know how to
do this with Debian but not Red Hat[1]
--cw
[1] bug me if interested
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