Re: bootless upgrade to 6.0

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I don't yet have RH6.0 From what I read on the lists they have broken up the
boot images, so I am assuming you only need one image now for the install.
I wonder if you can dd a boot.img to  /dev/hda and let BIOS boot it from
there when it seeks a bootloader. I imagine once it is in memory it will be
okay to repartition the hard drive, destroying the image.
R.


>Here's one stumper for you...
>
>I have this one machine, currently running rhl5.2. I would LOVE to
>upgrade this to 6.0. One problem though, i cannot boot the machine from
>a boot disk, not even a dos disk to reformat the drive. I DO have the
>6.0 RPMS and Base files for install. But need a way to install it that
>doesnt require booting from the disks or probably even a CD.
>
>Any takers? I am not quite sure what to do on this one. I thought about
>formatting and restarting from scratch (its a sandbox server) but alas i
>cant boot off a diskette.
>
>Any ideas would be appreciated.
>--
>Michael B. Weiner
>Systems Administrator/Partner
>The UserFriendly Network (UFN)
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