almost success

[Janina Sajka]

Congrats, Steve. You have pulled it off! <grin>

Don't forget to make yourself an initrd. For your reference, here's my /boot/grub/grub.conf:

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# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You do not have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda1
#          initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=20
#splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358spk)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358spk ro root=LABEL=/ vga=0x31B
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.5-1.358spk.img
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Notice the Ctrl-G in the title line? This causes the PC speaker to beep when you get to this stage of the boot. This is handy in case you want to do something non standard, like go into single user mode.

You need to eliminate the splash image for this to work. In my case, I just renamed the file by giving it a .bk extension.


Stephen Clower writes:
> Ok folks, for those of you who are running FC1 and are not able to install FC2 from the CD images due to some hardware issues, it does indeed look like yum will update your Fedora installation to the latest release. Initially, you will need to install most, if not all, of the packages from FC1. Unfortunately, in /etc/yum.conf, yum is set to upgrade to the latest release of Fedora Core 1. What I ended up doing was replacing the $releasever strings in the base and update URL's to the number 2. Probably not the best thing to do I'm sure, but that along with the exclude line in Janina's prior post got me all of FC2, save the 2.6 Speakup image. I've installed it from the RPM package from the Speakup FTP server, so once I figure out how to reconfigure grub, I'll be set. This is by no means guaranteed to work for anyone else, but I thought the list might be interested to know that it appears to have worked. Note that this takes a *very* long time, even on a broadband connection (about 4 hours for me). I hope the hardware issue, whatever it may be, will be corrected some time soon, but in the mean time things are looking much better.
> 
> Thanks,
> Steve
> 
> 
> Stephen Clower, that guy from the south.
> You can reach me by any of the following:
> E-Mail: steve at steve-audio.net
> MSN: steve at steve-audio.net
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> 
> You can also check out my little home on the web by visiting http://www.steve-audio.net
>     
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
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