Re: Newbie question

From: Paul Howarth (paul_at_city-fan.org)
Date: 10/08/04

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    Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 11:26:33 +0100
To: Livhu Tshisikule <livhu.tshisikule@telkomsa.net>

    Livhu Tshisikule wrote:
    > Paul,
    >
    > My grub.conf
    > # grub.conf generated by anaconda
    > #
    > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
    > # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
    > # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
    > # root (hd0,0)
    > # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda7
    > # initrd /initrd-version.img
    > #boot=/dev/hda
    > default=0
    > timeout=10
    > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
    > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8)
    > root (hd0,0)
    > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
    > initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img
    >
    > I have 3 machines on my network running RedHat 9, the Fedora iso's are not on
    > the machine I want to upgrade. Is it not possible to make a boot floppy and
    > use it to install. I gave someone my CD's of Redhat.

    Here's how to set up the installer on the machine you want to upgrade.

    On the machine with the ISO images on it, change to the directory containing
    the ISO images, the first one of which should be called FC2-i386-disc1.iso

    mkdir /mnt/iso /tmp/fc2files
    mount -r -o loop FC2-i386-disc1.iso /mnt/iso
    cp /mnt/iso/images/boot.iso /tmp/fc2files
    umount /mnt/iso
    mount -r -o loop /tmp/fc2files/boot.iso /mnt/iso
    cp /mnt/iso/isolinux/vmlinuz /tmp/fc2files/fc2-vmlinuz
    cp /mnt/iso/isolinux/initrd.img /tmp/fc2files/fc2-initrd.img
    umount /mnt/iso
    rmdir /mnt/iso
    rm /tmp/fc2files/boot.iso

    Directory /tmp/fc2files should now contain two files, fc2-vmlinuz and
    fc2-initrd.img. Copy these to the /boot directory of the machine you want to
    upgrade to FC2.

    Then add the following entry to the grub.conf file on the machine to be upgraded:

    title Fedora Core Linux 2 Install
            root (hd0,0)
            kernel /fc2-vmlinuz ramdisk_size=8192
            initrd /fc2-initrd.img

    If you want to do a text-mode, low resolution or expert install, add the words
      "text", "lowres" or "expert" respectively to the end of the "kernel" line.

    When you reboot the machine, you should now have an option to enter the FC2
    Installer, and then go ahead with your NFS install.

    Paul. 

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