installing FC3 over the network...

[linux.whiz at gmail.com]

On 4/28/05, linux.whiz at gmail.com <linux.whiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/28/05, bruce <bedouglas at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > the system already has RH8 on it...
> >
> > it can easily be reconnected to my network... but i'm not sure what to do
> > after that...
> >
> > given the difference betwen RH8/FC3 with partitions/file types/etc.. i
> > wanted to use the gui..
> >
> > is it possible to do this remotely?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > bruce
> 
> It can be done.  Copy the files vmlinuz and initrd.img from the
> isolinux directory on CD1 of Fedora Core into /boot on the RH8 box.
> Modify the /boot/grub/grub.conf so that it has the following stanza in
> it:
> 
> title Install FC
>         kernel /vmlinuz
>         initrd /initrd.img
> 
> Then reboot your RH8 machine.  You will get a menu choice at the GRUB
> menu to install FC.  Choose that, and the installer will start.  You
> can point it to a network resource (NFS, http, ftp, whatever you set
> up) and go to town.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> Thomas

Whoops - make that:

title Install FC
          root (hd0,1)
          kernel /vmlinuz ramdisk_size=8192
          initrd /initrd.img

Sorry about that.  I left out the root (hd0,1) line.  That line means
that the partition mounted as /boot is on hard drive 0 and it is the
first partition.

Thomas