Hi, I am not allowed to install Linux on one of the machines on the college, however I must get the machine to run Linux in order to write a Linux CDROM. However, the machine has a CDROM drive which I can use. I am just wondering if it is possible to boot from floppy and pass the arguments root=/dev/hdb/live to the kernel so it can boot off the 'live' part of an existing CDROM which I have. ... I then assume that I can mount /dev/hda on /mnt and /dev/hdc on /cdrom (both mnt and cdrom are on /hdb/live) and then simply 'tar xvzf /mnt/linux.tgs' from the appropriate directory
Please could I have your opions and comments on this BTW: I will obtain permission to do this first. Jonathan Lawson --- Thermal Processes Unit Department of Applied Energy and Optical Diagnostics School of Mechanical Engineering, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford. UK. email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null