Hi, Thanks a lot, I have installed Fedora on two of my machines now and they are working. Regards Livhu On Friday 08 October 2004 12:26, Paul Howarth wrote: > 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. -- Livhu Tshisikule Tel/Fax 012 323 43 66 Cell 083 55 66 838 Alt. E-mail livhu.tshisikule@xxxxxxxxxxxxx WEB http://dembe.netfirms.com Dembe Open Source Unix Solutions(DOSUS)
