On Sun, 6 Apr 2003, Leon Brooks wrote: > I want to upgrade a 9.0 machine that has _no_ removable media. I hypothesise > that I should be able to somehow boot network.img through LILO. If this is > possible, can someone please tell me how?
Yes. Loop-mount the network.img, cp the kernel and initrd to /boot and add a new lilo entry for the kernel (remember the initrd). You can even specify the ftp server etc in lilo.conf (see drakx-autoinstall-doc for more details) But, read on .... > > If it is not, can I install the newer kernel and modules and start the > Mandrake installer manually from an `init 1' shell prompt? Apprently live_update is broken. > > Can I unpack network.img onto a baby partition of its own and boot that? I > could borrow the /tmp partition for the occasion. > > What other possibilities exist? Any bright ideas? # urpmi.addmedia .... # urpmi urpmi --auto # urpmi --auto-select --auto # urpmi kernel-2.4.20.0.13mdk # reboot I ran this on one of our laptops on Friday, worked great. Only issue here is you need enough free space on /var/cache/urpmi to house all the RPMs if they are not local. Regards, Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
