5.10: Netinstall Floppies

[Curufir]

Breezy network installation floppies for people without a cd writer/cd drive.

Grab 5 1.44mb floppy disks.

Download the files attached in this thread. (Thanks to the way the forum works I have had to split the disk images into 2 parts per disk. I have also had to give them a .zip extension. THESE ARE NOT ZIP FILES.)

Reconsitute the disk images using these commands.

Windows:
copy /b boot1.zip+boot2.zip boot.img

*nix:
cat boot1.zip boot2.zip > boot.img

Write the images onto the floppy disks.

Windows:
Use Rawrite (http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite.htm)

*nix:
dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0

Reboot and set your BIOS to boot using the floppy drive. Insert the disk with boot img and follow the instructions on screen.

Notes:
This install method doesn't contain all the network drivers Ubuntu supports (madwifi is a major one). Your network card may not be supported.

This HOWTO uses a hacked up version of GRUB that allows composition of an initrd image from multiple files. Do not report bugs to the GRUB devs.

My Qemu test install failed to detect the network card after rebooting, causing installation to fail (I got dropped to the command line). This may be a Qemu only problem, the fix is easy enough. sudo dhclient eth0 then sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop.

I repeat THESE ARE NOT ZIP FILES.

md5sums:

f8266f68de75301aeeeba247c2419b91 boot.img
b9d94997278e10156dba0f1832f630df disk1.img
ba60dc33896d3ed160a5ab69b64803d2 disk2.img
088d588780f6dc7197dc08334807b921 disk3.img
2a6ae7f708111cd91ff05ce6ebefef7c disk4.img

66b6d38192f3220edd2328371cd82192 boot1.zip
eeb60d7799bd82cda43ce243462545d8 boot2.zip
8c5d2a54da3fc42ef6e97a3420016ed2 dsk1pt1.zip
696de10984ca59f0818529cfce2933bf dsk1pt2.zip
9282d6d244f1c54a0a652a52391f60b0 dsk2pt1.zip
0f150736586265c1cbe1b3ec84277418 dsk2pt2.zip
a506b95254d8ea841f15a26f490d5536 dsk3pt1.zip
2d9e09f9a3950ac20bf0e5a2f216cf55 dsk3pt2.zip
a2da1679cfba6a3e22035d4698dd4110 dsk4pt1.zip
7761c40323f84b6de663a66eada50d09 dsk4pt2.zip

[Curufir]

Disks 1 and 2

[Curufir]

Disks 3 and 4

[majikstreet]

Do they inlcude ndiswrapper?

[UbuWu]

You can also do a netinstall from cd: download the following iso (only a few mb's) and burn it to cd and then boot from it:

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...tboot/mini.iso

[mr_mop]

Thanks for this, its great!

Is it possible to modify this so that it only does the server install and not the full system?

[mlomker]

Originally Posted by UbuWu You can also do a netinstall from cd: download the following iso (only a few mb's)

Thanks for the link! I have Breezy set up on my RIS server at work now. Fun.

[garba]

PLEASE, in the name of the almighty breezy badger, somebody put a link to the net install files in the download section! I had to download the full iso just to get the kernel and initrd files needed for a net install because i couldnt find them anywhere on the web! thanks in advance

[mr_mop]

Ummm here?
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dis...urrent/images/

[bonjun]

thanks for this workaround....but, is there a way that i can install badger directly from downloaded ISO, the ISO is in a partition/folder,, thanks