Newbie: How to upgrade from Red Hat 9 to Fedora from hard disk
Andy Green
fedora at warmcat.com
Fri Dec 19 21:51:16 UTC 2003
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On Friday 19 December 2003 18:42, Ghod wrote:
> I've just seen too many LI..................
use GRUB, you'll never see it again :-)
> I was offering REAL advice for a NEWBIE.. make a CD copy of the ISO so
> you have a BACKUP media in case of problems.
In itself that is good advice, since you will need to boot from CD in case of
install disaster. Something else I have done is formatted an old 4GB HDD
with ext3 and copied the ISOs to there, using it as a kind of thick DVD to
install from.
> that is my point, if you want to run them down the short-cut path.. so
> be it.
As I explained at length, if I have important data I swap out the HDD.
> it just means you like short-cuts for newbs too.
Redhat put HDD installs in, it exists, people will use it. I used it, it
worked fine. That doesn't mean it is failproof, my experience is one more
straw in the wind. Since I have other machines I could recover from an
install failure. If you only have one machine then paranoia is a good
setting as you suggest.
> and installing Linux on a machine without CD-ROM or Floppy.. now THAT
> must have been a real jewel.. hope it never crashes.. since you would
> never be able to install ANYTHING back on it.
Not sure where that came from, but my current work is with an Embedded Fedora
which boots off a NBD device via PXE -- this motherboard has NO local storage
other than the BIOS itself. Yet I can do what I like with its filesystem
since its a file on an NBD server. More things on Heaven and Earth.
- -Andy
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