On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 11:02:26PM +0300, Jonathan B. Horen wrote: > I got some assistance from Jason L Tibbitts about this; here are the steps: > > 1. Download the "vmlinuz" and "initrd.img" files from one of the many FC/2 > mirrors -- they are located in: > > /2/core/i386/os/isolinux/ (or similar /core/2 location) > > move the files to /boot on your workstation > > 2. Add the following entry to your grub.conf file: > > title Install FC/2 > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz ramdisk_size=9216 > initrd /initrd.img > > Booting from this kernel/initrd.img combination puts you into the FC > installer, which enables you to specify an installation using an FTP, > HTTP, or NFS server. > > 3. Once you've made your choice, specify the FTP server/source: > > I used the FC2 repository I created on a server where I work -- you > can find one closer to you geographically, from the Fedora website: > > http://fedora.redhat.com/download/mirrors.html > > The installer then finds the files in on that server in > /core/2/i386/os/Fedora/base/ (or a similar location) and downloads the > stage2.img file, then goes for it! I chose to upgrade my existing FC1 > installation, rather than to perform a clean install -- over my ADSL > connection (supposedly 1.5Mb/sec), it took two hours to complete -- and > it worked perfectly when I pressed "Finish" at the end, to reboot my > workstation. Just a further note here: if you are planning on installing FC2 to a separate drive or partition and still want to boot into FC1, do not let Anaconda write a new Grub. Instead, just write your own boot stanza in your already existing grub.conf to boot into the new FC2 partition. That way you can preserve your existing grub.conf -- Jack Bowling mailto: jbinpg@xxxxxxx
