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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