Trying my first upgrade using FC16

[Bill Davidsen]

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I have a bunch of machines I would like to upgrade, and I was hoping to
> just run an upgrade on them, booting from the DVD, selecting "upgrade"
> and going on as usual on upgrade from media. Unfortunately I get another
> screen or so forward and am told that an active network connection is
> *required* for the upgrade. What is the secret to getting an upgrade
> from media? Why would it even suggest using a network when the data is
> present on a nice new DVD?
>
> This is somewhat of a show stopper, if we have to backup, reinstall, and
> restore and reconfigure it will take much longer. I have done cold
> installs from DVD without network, so that's not an issue, but if the
> upgrade can't be done there's a fair chance they will not be upgraded,
> at least with Fedora.
>
> At another office someone let it actually use a network connection, and
> it's not using the DVD at all, zero, not happening. I assume we're doing
> something wrong.
>

*PING!!* - doesn't anyone else ever upgrade machines with a slow network 
connection?