Installing without a CDROM or USB drive
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Tue May 25 22:30:27 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 17:20 -0500, fedora-devel at tlarson.com wrote:
> Luckily you're already running FC1, right? And you already have
> grub installed, right? Perfect. Just tell grub to boot the kernel
> provided for USB drives (using the appropriate ramdisk image) and
> you're done.
There's an even simpler thing you can do...
> cd iso_dir
> mkdir mnt1 mnt2
> mount -o loop FC2-i386-disc1.iso mnt1
> mnt -o loop mnt1/images/diskboot.img mnt2
Not needed
> mkdir /boot/fc2inst
> cp mnt2/vmlinuz mnt2/initrd.img /boot/fc2inst
Instead, do cp mnt1/isolinux/{vmlinuz,initrd.img} /boot/fc2inst
> umount mnt2
Then this isn't needed either
> umount mnt1
> rmdir mnt1 mnt2
Cheers,
Jeremy
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