Upgrade to FC4 from FC3 without having to re download and then burn cds and recreate partition?

Jared Buck JBuck814366460 at aol.com
Tue May 31 20:16:09 UTC 2005


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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