Date:  Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:01:20 +0000
From:  Dogsbody <dan (at mark) dogsbody.org>
Subject:  [coba-e:09026] Re: Installing CBQ without a CD-ROM
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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Thank you all for your suggestions.

Unfortunately I can't add a CD-ROM to it quickly (even USB), ok, I could 
but I'm actually doing this for disaster recovery so that if I need to 
in a couple of years time I can login remotely and do an entire 
reinstall without having to physically go to the server.

There is also no chance of using PXE, kickstart or a version of the 
original Cobalt restore CD's as again I'm not near the server so can't 
setup other machines on the same network :-/

So far I have done this...
- Net boot the system from a server that is provided for troubleshooting
- fdisk, wipe all partitions and create one 800MB disk
- mkfs ext3 the partition
- mount the partition
- wget the Nuonce iso image onto it
- mount the iso image as loopback
- copy the loopback image files to the partition

Now the original CD used ISOLINUX [1] as the bootloader so I *THINK* if 
I can translate the isolinux.cfg into a lilo.conf and write the MBR then 
I can just reboot and am sorted!!!!????  :-/

Any hints would be welcome :-)

Or am I barking up the wrong tree?? :-S

Thank you again

Dan

[1] http://syslinux.zytor.com/iso.php