Re: installation

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan infradead org>]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 14:59 -0600, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:39:55PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 15:38 -0500, jogger wrote:
> > > hi, I don't have a bootable CD-ROM. The only bootable device I have is
> > > the disk drive.  It looks like there is no boot disk option for
> > > version 4, how can i upgrade my Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 to 4
> > > without re-installation?  
> > 
> > get the PXE vmlinuz and initrd.img files, and put them into your
> > existing grub.conf as a new entry.... and then reboot ;)
> 
> He said the only bootable device he has is the disk drive.  I'd read
> that to mean that he can't boot over the network either.

correct but he had a rhel3 installation already which means he has grub
on the machine already. So teh idea is to use that grub, but with a
rhel4 installer initrd/vmlinuz; the pxe boot ones from the cd are nice
and easy to get to.