network boot/ install and grub?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Jul 13 15:19:37 UTC 2006


hbrhodes wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 20:32 -0500, hbrhodes wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> The really important thing i need to do is get around mounting the main
>>> hard drive, so i can resize2fs the main drive.  the computer does not
>>> have a cd-rom, just four hard drives (eide kind).  so i'm going to try
>>> the grub.conf file and try editing it.... but i don't have any
>>> experience with it really.  OR, if i can use GRUB to boot into a folder
>>> on the other computer so i can reinstall.  though i would rather resize
>>>   
>>
>> It sounds like simply booting the installer image is all you need (so
>> you can get into rescue mode and do the resize2fs). You can do that
>> using grub on the same machine:
>>
>> http://www.city-fan.org/tips/BootInstallerFromHardDisk
>>
>> Incidentally, have you tried ext2online? It might save you a lot of
>> trouble if you're not making a really big size change.
>>
>> Paul.
>>
>>  
>>
> i tried to YUM it and i recieved a lot of conflicts with ext2online with 
> the already installed e2fsprogs.  i naturally tried to uninstall 
> e2fsprogs and recieved a flood of programs that would be uninstalled so 
> i quit the attempt.

That would be because ext2online is included in the e2fsprogs package - 
you should already have it.

Paul.




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