going to FC4

[Rick Stevens]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 19:30 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
>>Steven C. Liu wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>> 
>>>I have the FC4 DVD iso on my FC2 box.  I don't have a DVD drive on that 
>>>box.  I can mount it as an iso9660 fs, but I can't figure out how to 
>>>upgrade my FC2 system via that method.  I bought an external USB DVD 
>>>drive, but the system wouldn't boot to that drive.  Yes, I can burn a 
>>>DVD from my XP box.  (I didn't play around with the BIOS...)
>>
>>Burn your DVD, then go fetch Smart Boot Manager (SBM)
>>(http://btmgr.webframe.org/), stick it on a floppy and boot the floppy.
>>It'll let you boot from darn near any device you have, whether your BIOS
>>understands it or not.
>>
>>SBM, IMHO, is a damned useful tool.
> 
> 
> I think you missed the part where he said he didn't have a DVD drive on
> that box?

Er, he said, "I bought an external USB DVD drive, but the system
wouldn't boot to that drive."  Hence my suggestion of SBM.

> If you can put the DVD ISO on a separate partition (not LVM, not your
> root partition), you should be able to do a hard disk install:
> 
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc4/sn-installing-from-harddrive.html

Yup, that's also possible.
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