Upgrade without CD/Floppy?
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Fri Apr 7 08:11:53 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 08:43 +0530, Anil Kumar Sharma wrote:
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>
> On 4/7/06, Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> wrote:
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> Devon Harding wrote:
> > I have a FC3 system that cannot boot from CD or floppy. Is
> it
> > possible to upgrade to FC5 without a CD or Floppy? Yum?
>
> I have no experience doing yum upgrades, though many folks on
> this
> list have done them with varying degrees of success, judging
> by the
> archives.
>
> My preference when updating to a new version is to do a fresh
> install
> and then restore my config file changes manually. Not always
> quick
> and easy, but it avoids some update pitfalls.
>
> Anyway, some options (other than yum) that you may have are
> network
> boot or a usb drive. If you can boot from a usb device,
> that's
> probably less setup than a network boot. Both methods will
> require
> you to have another system that you can put the install files
> on and
> each will require a network card.
>
> How familiar are you with linux? Setting up a network boot
> isn't all
> that hard, but it's also not something that'd be fun to try if
> you're
> still learning your way around a command prompt. I did this a
> while
> back with (IIRC) FC2 and I had little problem googling for the
> details and making it work.
>
>
> Get iso files (either dvd or cd) on your hard disk.
> mount them in loop
> copy install files (vmlinuz and initrd) from iso to /boot
> edit grub.conf to give install boot option
> boot into the new install option
> choose install method
> point to the location of iso files and proceed to either fresh install
> or upgrade.
> (specific details of each step are discussed in threads before, please
> search.)
Details available here:
http://www.city-fan.org/tips/BootInstallerFromHardDisk
Paul.
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