On Tue, 05 Apr 2016 08:19:55 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote:
On 05/04/16 08:04, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 04/04/2016 02:49 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
>> On 04/04/16 10:30, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
>>> I haven't upgraded my machines in a while and I couldn't find any
>>> reference on how to install directly from the hard disk, without
>>> media.
>>> Is this still possible? None of my pcs boot off of a usb stick and
>>> the cdrom I think is failing on one of them, so I really need to
>>> install from the disk. Any suggestions? Thanks!
>
> Assuming that you have a separate /home partition, you can put the .iso
> file in /home and add a boot entry to your grub config. If you provide
> your partition layout, I could probably give you a working config chunk
> to put there.
Isn't booting from the iso image, or mounting the image as a loopback
device and running the installer from the mount point, going to install
the new version from scratch rather than doing an upgrade, which would
then mean that he would have to remember everything additional he had
installed and reinstall them if indeed he can (taking into account
whether there is an upgrade available in F23 or not and whether F23 has
the necessary dependencies for whatever the package is)?
regards,
Steve
>> If you don't mind waiting a while for the upgrades to occur and you
>> have internet access, you could always install Fedup if it is not
>> already installed and run that to upgrade your system to the latest
>> version of Fedora. As I understand it that is the current recommended
>> method of system upgrading.
>
> He said he was on F20 currently and that's too far to jump using fedup.
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Yes, it does do a new install, but I don't mind that. Sure, I have to
reconfigure printers, firewall, services, etc. but it's OK, it's good
exercise.