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Tom Spec wrote:
> I thought maybe if I already have an earlier version of Fedora
> installed, I could somehow interrupt grub and "point it" at the area of
> my disk that has the installation ISOs. Then no media required.
>
You can do it! Once you download the ISO, place it in the partition
you set aside for it. Then you'll need to mount the iso with the -loop
option `mount fedora6.iso -r -t iso9660 -o loop /media/temp`
browse the iso to the pxeboot directory, then copy the vmlinuz and image
files to your /boot directory
Now make a new entry in your grub.conf file using the existing entries
as a guide like this:
title Fedora Core (2.6.19-1.2891.fc7)
root (hd0,9)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.19-1.2891.fc7 ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 vga=792 quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.19-1.2891.fc7.img
title Upgrade
root (hd0,9)
kernel /vmlinuz ro root = /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 vga=792
initrd /initrd.img
note that the vmlinuz (kernel) file and the initrd image do not have
version Nr.s and that the root= points to your current root partition
and not the iso.
When you reboot, select the Upgrade and when the prompt comes up enter
linux askmethod
that should get you going. One good hint: do not have the iso files in
a subdirectory! it's a pain in the butt to have to reboot to find the
name of that directory.
Scott
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