I'm surprised nobody else has answered Eve's question yet. I may have
the wrong idea here, because I haven't recently used the methods I'm about
to suggest, but just to get what I think is correct as far as it goes, and
to encourage whoever knows more or knows I'm wrong to jump in:
I assume you can burn and read CDs, and your old system is i386, not
x86_64. It should work to burn an installation cd with the boot.iso from
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/52/i386/images/ . Boot
your computer with this CD and follow instructions.
Alternatively, if you already have linux with grub on your system,
from http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/52/i386/isolinux/
copy into some location on your computer initrd.img and vmlinuz. For
example, initrd.img can go to /boot/initrd5.2.img and vmlinuz can go to
/boot/vmlinuz5.2. If, for example, /boot is in the root partition, and
that is /dev/hda2 <--> (hd0,1) in grub, then grub.conf can have lines
title SL52 Installation
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz5.2
initrd /boot/initrd5.2.img
If instead /boot is its own partition, say /dev/hda2, the same lines
without the "/boot" should work. Then choose the SL52 Installation when
you want to install SL52.
Steven Yellin
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Eve V. E. Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone point me to some instructions for setting up a network install
(via nfs) for SL5? I have an older system that does not have a DVD drive,
and it would be convenient to do it via the network rather than changing
multiple cd's
Thanks,
Eve
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