upgrading RH 9 system->Fedora with iso files and apt only

[Klaasjan Brand]

On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 10:02, Didier Casse wrote:
> I have the yarrow's iso files on my HD in a RH9 system. Let's say I want
> to upgrade selected packages using an "apt-get install" pointing to my
> iso-mounted files, how do I do it?
> 
> i.e I mount the iso into some /mnt/yarrow1, /mnt/yarrow 2 etc..
> 
> Then what is the complete procedure to make my apt look into my own HD to
> upgrade packages. Can anybody redirect me to the correct
> resource or some literature hanging on the web? Thanks.
> 
> Assume also that I do not wish to burn CDs! I do not want to use
> apt-cdrom. Thanks.

I just updated a RH9 system to FC1 by writing the bootdisk image to a
floppy and directing the installer to the hd partition containing the
iso's. It's working fine now...

I'm not sure, but maybe grub can boot those disk images as well?

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Klaasjan Brand <kjb at dds.nl>