[ale] RedHat Upgrade without a bootdisk or CD?

Nassar Carnegie tracc at abraxis.com
Tue Jan 26 09:19:24 EST 1999


Get the boot image out of redhat/images directory and go from there.
it should be boot.img

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On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, joe wrote:

> 
> you should be able to copy over the image, then edit LILO
> to optionaly boot off of that image
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Nomad the Wanderer wrote:
> 
> > Ok,
> >   I have a box that doesn't have a floppy or cdrom in it.  It is up and
> > on the network right now.  I can put the 5.2 cd in another machine and 
> > mount it, but how do I boot the image?  There is a .exe you can run in 
> > dos that will boot you into the install image.  Is there anything like
> > this for once you're already in Linux?
> > 
> > Robert
> > 
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Robert L. Harris                |    Windows is to Unix 
> > Senior System Administrator II  |      what 'hooked on phonics'
> >   at Great West Life.           \_       is to Shakespeare
> > 
> > 
> > http://www.orci.com/~nomad
> > 
> > DISCLAIMER:
> >       These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
> > 
> > FYI:
> >  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
> > 
> 
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