[syslinux] special boot disk.

[Steve Glines]

I have been asked to build a Linux Installation lab. The lab has to 
support the installation of SUSE Enterprise 8, Red Hat (Industrial 
strength), Fedora, Debian and Mandrake and probably a couple of others. 
Here is the catch:

1.	The machine(s) will only have a virtual floppy attached so 
installation will be via network (we’ll supply the mirror).
2.	It must be completely automatic – one floppy has to be able to boot 
all versions of Linux. The user can remove the virtual floppy but can’t 
insert a second one.

What this means is that I need a multi-stage install: 1. Boot from 
floppy, 2. Query the user as to which system to install. 3. Mount a 
remote directory (or wget into a Ram disk) and boot the CD image 
(anaconda, Yast etc).

When researching how to do this it occurred to me that it’s probably 
already been done with syslinux. Any clues, suggestions, pointers or 
code is welcome.

Cheers
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Steve Glines
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