Installing (not updating) YDL 3.0 from working YDL 2.3

[Dr. Robert M. Fuhrer]

[Sorry for the duplication folks, was forced to use Outlook to send
the prior message :-( and the subject field got screwed up...]

At 02:48 PM 10/5/2003, Pat Plummer wrote:

> > - the text installer sets up a bogus keymap that makes the
> >    keyboard essentially unusable, and it doesn't recognize the install
CD
>
> Robert:
>
> Try a text install and add this as a kernel argument:
>
> keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes=1
>
> That should straighten out your keyboard problems.

Thanks!

Yes, it did clear up my keyboard problems, and after figuring
out that "text" as an additional boot/kernel arg gets me to the
text installer, I once again hit a kernel oops about 30 minutes
into the package install part of the process.

I've tried using the 2.4.18 kernel from my 2.3 install with the ramdisk
image, but then it doesn't see the CD drive (odd, since it's an all-SCSI
machine, and obviously my kernel knows how to speak SCSI, and I
don't need to load any modules to get it to talk to the CD under
normal circumstances).

So, to repeat my earlier question:

  Is there a way to get a clean install of 3.0 on fresh partitions
  from within a running 2.3?

I mounted the install ramdisk.image and poked around a bit, trying
things roughly like:

  $ mount -t ext2 -o ro,loop ramdisk.image /mnt/ramdisk0
  $ (chroot /mnt/ramdisk0; /sbin/init)

and variations, to no avail.

Am I barking up the proverbial wrong tree?

Cheers,
  -- Bob