Fedora 7 CD iso files?
Knute Johnson
knute at frazmtn.com
Sun Jun 3 00:18:38 UTC 2007
>On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:42:05 -0700
>Knute Johnson <knute at frazmtn.com> wrote:
>
>> That works fine but you can't upgrade an existing installation
>> without a DVD drive or a complicated (and not really documented so
>> that a linux blivet can do it) set of procedures.
>
>You already have a mail server and a desktop machine. Why not copy the
>dvdimage and host a nfs server on one (which will take you about 3 minutes to
>set up), and boot off of the cdrom boot.iso on the other; upgrade it. Then copy
>the dvd image to the other, host a nfs server on that, and upgrade it.
>
>Assuming that they are in the same room (or can be brought into the same room)
>it won't take any longer to do it this way than it would take to shuffle
>all of those CD's around. Really!
They are on a different network and nfs is not installed on the mail
server. Installing it is probably not a big problem but that
computer is connected directly to the net and I don't think I want
nfs exposed to the world. And the mail server is downstairs in the
garage and my desktop isn't. Then add to that that I have no idea
how nfs works or how to configure it or how to do an install with it.
I'm not opposed to learning new skills but I don't have unlimited
time to fool with this.
CDs are simple and fairly reliable (more so now that I figured out
how solve the media check problem). My mail server is still at FC5
because I didn't want to risk blowing it up when I upgraded it. Now
it is time to upgrade and there are no disks. Upgrading is hazardous
enough without having to drag computers around, change their
addresses, do an install that I can't find any real instructions for
and drag my desktop downstairs.
I think maybe I'll just change my mail server computer to ubuntu
server. They just upgrade from the net. No disks.
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Knute Johnson
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