Upgrade to FC4 from FC3 without having to re download and then burn cds and recreate partition?
So, all I have to do is download the FC4 boot.iso, burn it, boot from the disc, and then what?
Also, someone mentioned a hard drive install. Seems like a good idea... How does that work?
I found a boot.iso on the Fedora download server.
On 5/31/05, Jimmy McMillan jimmy@freshstation.org wrote:
Yes, as long as you have patience ;0
Sam Johnson wrote:
Will 3MB cable work?
On 5/31/05, Jared Buck JBuck814366460@aol.com wrote:
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 16:04 -0400, Elliot Lee wrote:
On Tue, 31 May 2005, Sam Johnson wrote:
I am very excited about the soon release of Fedora Core 4. However, I want to upgrade from Fedora Core 3 in an easier way than doing the procedure that is required for the first install you do, downloading all of the ISOs, then burning them to discs, and then use Disk Druid to erase partition (and all of my lovely data) and recreate it. I hear of alot of people saying that they upgraded, and am curious about how it is done.
If you have a fast Internet connection, you can download boot.iso, burn it to a CD, and then kick off an HTTP install by booting off that.
Without a fast 'net connection, you can download all the ISOs, and do an upgrade from them. That will save you from the repartitioning and recreating bit.
Best, -- Elliot
I have a DSL line, does that count? :) where would I find boot.isos, then?
Jared
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On 5/31/05, Sam Johnson johnsonsamc@gmail.com wrote:
So, all I have to do is download the FC4 boot.iso, burn it, boot from the disc, and then what?
Also, someone mentioned a hard drive install. Seems like a good idea... How does that work?
You will still have to download the ISO's for a hard drive install. The only real advantage is that you avoid burning the iso's to cd's, and the feeding and reading of the cd's during the upgrade. You'll need to be able to access the hard drive, of course, either locally or remotely.
At 6:54 AM -0500 6/1/05, Basil Copeland wrote:
On 5/31/05, Sam Johnson johnsonsamc@gmail.com wrote:
So, all I have to do is download the FC4 boot.iso, burn it, boot from the disc, and then what?
Also, someone mentioned a hard drive install. Seems like a good idea... How does that work?
You will still have to download the ISO's for a hard drive install. The only real advantage is that you avoid burning the iso's to cd's, and the feeding and reading of the cd's during the upgrade. You'll need to be able to access the hard drive, of course, either locally or remotely.
I tried to do a hard drive install, and ended up burning CDs anyway. Although one is supposed to be able to put the .iso's on a FAT32 volume, the installer seems only to allow paths starting with, umm, some unix path like /foo/bar/, as anything I typed had that path prefixed to it in the error message, so it seems to be impossible to refer to my C: drive. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' mailto:tonynelson@georgeanelson.com ' http://www.georgeanelson.com/
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 16:00 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
At 6:54 AM -0500 6/1/05, Basil Copeland wrote:
On 5/31/05, Sam Johnson johnsonsamc@gmail.com wrote:
So, all I have to do is download the FC4 boot.iso, burn it, boot from the disc, and then what?
Also, someone mentioned a hard drive install. Seems like a good idea... How does that work?
You will still have to download the ISO's for a hard drive install. The only real advantage is that you avoid burning the iso's to cd's, and the feeding and reading of the cd's during the upgrade. You'll need to be able to access the hard drive, of course, either locally or remotely.
I tried to do a hard drive install, and ended up burning CDs anyway. Although one is supposed to be able to put the .iso's on a FAT32 volume, the installer seems only to allow paths starting with, umm, some unix path like /foo/bar/, as anything I typed had that path prefixed to it in the error message, so it seems to be impossible to refer to my C: drive.
The installer asks for a partition name and directory. So if you dumped the ISO images into C:\Fedora and C: was known to Linux as /dev/hda1, you'd tell the installer to find the ISO images on /dev/hda1 in directory /Fedora. Simple.
Paul.
--- Paul Howarth paul@city-fan.org wrote:
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 16:00 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
At 6:54 AM -0500 6/1/05, Basil Copeland wrote:
On 5/31/05, Sam Johnson johnsonsamc@gmail.com wrote:
So, all I have to do is download the FC4 boot.iso, burn it, boot from the disc, and then what?
Also, someone mentioned a hard drive install. Seems like a good idea... How does that work?
You will still have to download the ISO's for a hard drive install. The only real advantage is that you avoid burning the iso's to cd's, and the feeding and reading of the cd's during the upgrade. You'll need to be able to access the hard drive, of course, either locally or remotely.
I tried to do a hard drive install, and ended up burning CDs anyway. Although one is supposed to be able to put the .iso's on a FAT32 volume, the installer seems only to allow paths starting with, umm, some unix path like /foo/bar/, as anything I typed had that path prefixed to it in the error message, so it seems to be impossible to refer to my C: drive.
The installer asks for a partition name and directory. So if you dumped the ISO images into C:\Fedora and C: was known to Linux as /dev/hda1, you'd tell the installer to find the ISO images on /dev/hda1 in directory /Fedora. Simple.
Paul.
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Question: Can an upgrade be done using yum or up2date?
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On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 13:39 -0700, Globe Trotter wrote:
Question: Can an upgrade be done using yum or up2date?
Yes, but the process may require a fair bit of manual fiddling to get it right. Using anaconda is likely to be easier if that option is open to you (which it might not be for a remote machine for instance).
Someone that has done lots of upgrades using yum has documented their experiences here: http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading_Red_Hat_Linux_with_yum.html
Paul.
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 13:39 -0700, Globe Trotter wrote:
Question: Can an upgrade be done using yum or up2date?
Many thanks and best wishes!
I have used this page many times and I have never had a problem with the instructions, it is awesome.
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading_Red_Hat_Linux_with_yum.html
FC4 is not mentioned here, but I would imagine you would follow the same steps and download the FC4 versions and go from there. I have not upgraded to FC4 yet.
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