Pom Sailasuta wrote:
Please see my question below
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Troy Dawson <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Garrett Holmstrom wrote:
On 24 May 2010, at 17:20, Pom Sailasuta wrote:
I would like to install Sc-Linux version 5.5 on my desktop
which is a dual boot system (Fedora core 2 and Win XP, hard
drive capacity is 280GB, which I think is dying).
I would like to do this on my new 800GB hard disk currently
empty and mounted on /dev/sbd with 3 partitions, first
parition is for linux, second is for swap and third covers
the entire disk.
Ultimately, if this works out, I will remove my old 280GB
drive and only use the new 800GB drive, no dual boot this
time, just linux.
I would apprecaite any suggestion on how to do this.
I can not removed the old drive and just simply use this
800GB drive because my Dell Optiplex GX620 does not have
option for boot from CD or DVD,
I have only two options either hard drive or USB CD ROM.
In this scenario I usually download the installer's kernel and
initramfs, put them in /boot, add a GRUB entry for them, and
boot from the hard drive. It will ask you for a URI for the
installation tree, at which point you can point it to an
appropriate place on a SL mirror.
Garrett is correct, but just incase you need a little more detail.
Do the following as root in your current fedore core 2
mkdir /boot/55
cd /boot/55
wget
http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/55/i386/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
wget
http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/55/i386/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
Done up to here so far
vi /boot/grub/grub.conf
my grub.conf file
////////////////////////////////////////////////
[r...@pomlinux 55]# more /etc/fstab
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /disk800 ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sdb2 /disk801 ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/sdb3 /disk802 ext3 defaults 1 2
This is not your grub file, this is your /etc/fstab
Do a
cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
Troy
add the following section if you have a separate /boot/ partition
change "root (hd0,1)" to whatever the line is for your current linux
title Install SL 55
root (hd0,1)
kernel /54/vmlinuz
initrd /54/initrd.img
add the following section if you do not have a separate /boot/ partition
change "root (hd0,1)" to whatever the line is for your current linux
title Install SL 55
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/54/vmlinuz
initrd /boot/54/initrd.img
reboot your machine, and pick "Install SL 55" at grub.
When the time comes, select install via http and put in the url
http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/55/i386/
or whatever your favorite mirror is.
Hope this helps.
Troy
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Troy Dawson [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> (630)840-6468
Fermilab ComputingDivision/LSCS/CSI/USS Group
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Troy Dawson [email protected] (630)840-6468
Fermilab ComputingDivision/LSCS/CSI/USS Group
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