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.