On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 16:57:44 at 04:57:44PM +1000, Andrew Smith (rhml2@xxxxxxxx) wrote: > Hi, > anyone think of an easy way to start an install > from a running linux system? > > I've got RH8.0 on a system and want to replace it > with RH9 (install - not upgrade) > > Of course I could just make a boot floppy if the > floppy drive wasn't so unreliable :-( > Last time I did it using the floppy but it took a > few floppy-disks and a few tries before it worked. > The computer will not boot from CD. > > Since there is support for doing this from DOS I > thought it should be possible from linux also :-) > Create a directory /newboot copy the images from the cdrom to /newboot modify LILO/GRUB configuration to boot with those images in /newboot put cdrom#1 inside reboot: the bootloader will start the images in /newboot, they will immediately go fetch stuff from the cdrom, and here you go Details left as exercise for the reader Ciao, Marco Fioretti -- Marco Fioretti m.fioretti, at the server inwind.it Red Hat for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/en/ Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Aldous Huxley
