FTP 6.2 upgrade w/out a floppy

[Bradley Wendelboe <krakken@mn.mediaone.net>]

Last night I saw that someone had done an upgrade via ftp.real-time.com
and I thought "this will be a good project for the morning!".  So first
thing I go to ftp R-T and grab the bootnet.img and prepare to dd it to a
floppy.  Only then do I realise that I didn't install a floppy drive
when I built my new box!  Being too lazy to install one from one of my
other boxes, figured a way to get around this.

First I mounted the bootnet.img via the loopback device:

mount -t msdos -o loop bootnet.img /mnt/floppy

  Then I made a directory in my /boot partition.  Copied all the files
from the mounted floppy to this dir.  Next, I added these entries to
lilo.conf:

image=/boot/bootnet/vmlinuz
	label=netboot
	read-only
	initrd=/boot/bootnet/initrd.img

Run "lilo -R bootnet", Reboot, and bingo!  1.5 hours later I have a RH
6.2 updated system.  

Enjoy,

Krakken
aka Bradley Wendelboe