network boot/ install and grub?

[Paul Howarth]

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.