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RE: CD image install off hard disk

>Hi
>
>I want to know if I can install MKLinux from a hard disk instead of CD ie by
>downloading an image of the CD off the internet. I'm attempting to get
>MKlinux onto an 8100/100AV.

I think you can. 1st, partition your hard drive. Then mount the image and copy the whole thing (CDROM) to a hard drive and install the files that are in the MkLinux-install folder. Edit lilo.conf to what I mention later. Then restart. Once the installer starts, choose 'Local hard drive' or something like that and choose the partition that the files from the image are on (see below to figure out which to choose, remember that in /dev/sdX?, X is the SCSI id letter-->a=SCSI id 0, b=SCSI id 1, and so on, and ?=the partition number.) Then it should install like it normally would.

Email me for instructions for installing R1 via ftp if you want to do that.

>should I be downloading something like pub/cdimages/maindisk.img-old from
>the ftp.mklinux.org site?

Yes

>What should I change the lilo.conf : rootdev=/dev/hdc type thing to?

Copy mach_servers to the top level of your internal hard drive. Then rootdev should be /dev/sda5. Check this by opening pdisk, hitting l and then entering /dev/sda. Look for the line that says: Apple_HFS untitled. The number before that is the partition number and is normally 5.

>Thanks
>Mark R

Hope it helps,
Andy Seidl
email@hidden



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