Re: [TCLUG:13245] CD Burning (was Re: [TCLUG:13229] win2k)

[Nate Carlson <natecars@real-time.com>]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> >How would you do that? A bunch of the RPM's are > 1.44mb..
>         tar cvf /dev/fd0 -L 1440 redhat.iso
> 
> great way to move big files if you don't have a network connection. :)
> 
> reading/installing all that might be problematic without a custom install
> disk, tho... hmmm...
> 

Yeah, that's what I meant. You'd have to create a custom bootstrap that
would create a 500mb partition, extract the iso to it, and then mount it
on the loopback interface. The fact that it would require 500mb defeats
the purpose of installing on 486's.  :)

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