Re: installation

[csm moongroup com]

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On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, jogger said:

j>Hi,
j>
j>I am sorry; i should say i only have a bootable diskette or floppy
j>disk drive.
j>
j>I found pxeboot from the CD, but there is no detailed guide there.  I
j>worry about messing up my system.
j>
j>And there is a 6.1 MB diskboot.img in the CD, i am wondering how to
j>make a boot diskette from that image.  I used "rawrite" to make the
j>boot disk for ES 3, but there is no such thing in ES 4 CDs.

This is really not that hard to do... follow along here and see if you 
can make sense of this:

Here is 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/hda3
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/
        initrd /initrd-2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp.img

Here is my grub.conf set up the way Arjen suggests:

# 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/hda3
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz
	initrd /initrd.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/
        initrd /initrd-2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp.img

All you have to do now is copy the vmlinuz and the initrd.img from the 
installation cd to your /boot directory across the network. Then reboot 
your machine and do a network installation. You do have a network 
install point available right?

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