<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/7/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Todd Zullinger</b> <<a href="mailto:tmz@pobox.com">tmz@pobox.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>Devon Harding wrote:<br>> I have a FC3 system that cannot boot from CD or floppy. Is it<br>> possible to upgrade to FC5 without a CD or Floppy? Yum?<br><br>I have no experience doing yum upgrades, though many folks on this
<br>list have done them with varying degrees of success, judging by the<br>archives.<br><br>My preference when updating to a new version is to do a fresh install<br>and then restore my config file changes manually. Not always quick
<br>and easy, but it avoids some update pitfalls.<br><br>Anyway, some options (other than yum) that you may have are network<br>boot or a usb drive. If you can boot from a usb device, that's<br>probably less setup than a network boot. Both methods will require
<br>you to have another system that you can put the install files on and<br>each will require a network card.<br><br>How familiar are you with linux? Setting up a network boot isn't all<br>that hard, but it's also not something that'd be fun to try if you're
<br>still learning your way around a command prompt. I did this a while<br>back with (IIRC) FC2 and I had little problem googling for the<br>details and making it work.<br><br></blockquote></div><br>Get iso files (either dvd or cd) on your hard disk.
<br>mount them in loop<br>copy install files (vmlinuz and initrd) from iso to /boot<br>edit grub.conf to give install boot option<br>boot into the new install option<br>choose install method<br>point to the location of iso files and proceed to either fresh install or upgrade.
<br>(specific details of each step are discussed in threads before, please search.)<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Anil Kumar Shrama