Re: installation

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On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Ed Wilts said:

EW>On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:01:38PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
EW>> On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 14:59 -0600, Ed Wilts wrote:
EW>> > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:39:55PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
EW>> > > On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 15:38 -0500, jogger wrote:
EW>> > > > hi, I don't have a bootable CD-ROM. The only bootable device I have is
EW>> > > > the disk drive.  It looks like there is no boot disk option for
EW>> > > > version 4, how can i upgrade my Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 to 4
EW>> > > > without re-installation?  
EW>> > > 
EW>> > > get the PXE vmlinuz and initrd.img files, and put them into your
EW>> > > existing grub.conf as a new entry.... and then reboot ;)
EW>> > 
EW>> > He said the only bootable device he has is the disk drive.  I'd read
EW>> > that to mean that he can't boot over the network either.
EW>> 
EW>> correct but he had a rhel3 installation already which means he has grub
EW>> on the machine already. So teh idea is to use that grub, but with a
EW>> rhel4 installer initrd/vmlinuz; the pxe boot ones from the cd are nice
EW>> and easy to get to.
EW>
EW>That sounds cool!  So once he boots off that kernel, where does the
EW>anaconda get loaded from?  Is that in the initrd?

It comes from a network install point.

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