<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <pre wrap="">Hello Nigel, That's what I get for jumping to the solution before stating the problem. I do not have a DVD burner, I thought I could upgrade from a hard drive image instead of a CD or DVD image, but I see from your post that I cannot do it this way. After reading the rest of your post, I'm guessing I should go all the way back to the beginning. I have backed up all files that I need from my FC1 machine to a Windows XP share on my home network, so I have no problem replacing FC1 with FC5 rather than doing the upgrade. The XP machine has a CD burner on it. I downloaded the 5 FC5 files FC-5-i386-disc1.iso, ... FC-5-i386-disc5.iso and FC-5-i386-rescuecd.iso, and sha1sum successfully matches on all of them. The problem is that I can only successfully burn disc1, disc4, and the rescuecd using CDR Tools Front End for Windows v1.4 Final. I have tried time and time again to burn disc2, disc3, and disc5 without success. The FC5 CD tester during installation complains about errors on them. So that's when I went to try a hard drive-based install of FC5. And the impetus to go to FC5? Because the latest versions of Mozilla/Firefox plugins require GTK 2.4 or above. I thought of just upgrading the gtk package but I don't know how many dependencies there are, so rather than sort all that out, I thought I'd replace FC1 with FC5. Suggestions? Thanks again for your time. Phil On Sunday 02 July 2006 15:52, phil brogan wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">> Hello, > > I am currently running FC 1 and want to install FC 5. I successfully > downloaded the FC 5 DVD install image FC-5-i386-DVD.iso, and sha1sum > successfully matches. > > Here's my fstab (the FC-5-i386-DVD.iso file resides on the /dev/hdd > volume): > > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0 > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 > noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto > noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 > /dev/hdd /hdd ext3 defaults 1 1 > > Here's my grub.conf: > > # grub.conf generated by anaconda > # > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file > # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that > # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. > # root (hd0,0) > # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdb1 > # initrd /initrd-version.img > #boot=/dev/hda > default=0 > timeout=10 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb > initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img > > How do I tell GRUB to boot from the file /hdd/phil/FC-5-i386-DVD.iso > (where /hdd is the mount point of /dev/hdd)? > > Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! > > - Phil </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Hi Phil. I'm a bit confused about your situation. You've downloaded the .iso for FC5, correct? Presuming that you have a DVD writer, I presume that you have burnt the the .iso to a writeable DVD disc, using K3b, or something. You cannot boot a downloaded .iso that resides on a harddrive partition. it first has to be burned to a DVD, and then FC5 needs to be installed using your newly burned DVD via the DVD ROM drive. Your BIOS needs to be set for booting from CDROM as well. I don't know if you are wanting to upgrade FC1 to FC5. This is a very big jump, and may well not succeed. It might be better if you have free space on your harddrives to create a dual boot install. FC1, and FC5. Post back, as we need to have a bit more information. Nigel. </pre> </body> </html>