Hello,
I am currently running FC 1 and want to install FC 5. I successfully downloaded the FC 5 DVD install image FC-5-i386-DVD.iso, and sha1sum successfully matches.
Here's my fstab (the FC-5-i386-DVD.iso file resides on the /dev/hdd volume):
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 /dev/hdd /hdd ext3 defaults 1 1
Here's my grub.conf:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdb1 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img
How do I tell GRUB to boot from the file /hdd/phil/FC-5-i386-DVD.iso (where /hdd is the mount point of /dev/hdd)?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
- Phil
On Sunday 02 July 2006 15:52, phil brogan wrote:
Hello,
I am currently running FC 1 and want to install FC 5. I successfully downloaded the FC 5 DVD install image FC-5-i386-DVD.iso, and sha1sum successfully matches.
Here's my fstab (the FC-5-i386-DVD.iso file resides on the /dev/hdd volume):
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 /dev/hdd /hdd ext3 defaults 1 1
Here's my grub.conf:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdb1 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img
How do I tell GRUB to boot from the file /hdd/phil/FC-5-i386-DVD.iso (where /hdd is the mount point of /dev/hdd)?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
- Phil
Hi Phil. I'm a bit confused about your situation. You've downloaded the .iso for FC5, correct?
Presuming that you have a DVD writer, I presume that you have burnt the the .iso to a writeable DVD disc, using K3b, or something.
You cannot boot a downloaded .iso that resides on a harddrive partition. it first has to be burned to a DVD, and then FC5 needs to be installed using your newly burned DVD via the DVD ROM drive. Your BIOS needs to be set for booting from CDROM as well.
I don't know if you are wanting to upgrade FC1 to FC5. This is a very big jump, and may well not succeed.
It might be better if you have free space on your harddrives to create a dual boot install. FC1, and FC5.
Post back, as we need to have a bit more information.
Nigel.
On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 09:52 -0400, phil brogan wrote:
Hello,
I am currently running FC 1 and want to install FC 5. I successfully downloaded the FC 5 DVD install image FC-5-i386-DVD.iso, and sha1sum successfully matches.
Here's my fstab (the FC-5-i386-DVD.iso file resides on the /dev/hdd volume):
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 /dev/hdd /hdd ext3 defaults 1 1
Here's my grub.conf:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdb1 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img
How do I tell GRUB to boot from the file /hdd/phil/FC-5-i386-DVD.iso (where /hdd is the mount point of /dev/hdd)?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
You can't boot directly from the ISO but you can pull the kernel and initrd from there and get grub to boot them for you:
http://www.city-fan.org/tips/BootInstallerFromHardDisk
Paul.
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