Newbie: How to upgrade from Red Hat 9 to Fedora from hard disk

[Ghod]

Andy Green wrote:

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>On Friday 19 December 2003 18:42, Ghod wrote:
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>>I've just seen too many LI..................
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>use GRUB, you'll never see it again :-)
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why lilo works just fine. and I'm sure grub has it's pros and cons as well.
since I'm old school I'll just stick with lilo

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>>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.
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>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.
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>>that is my point, if you want to run them down the short-cut path.. so
>>be it.
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>As I explained at length, if I have important data I swap out the HDD.
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not everyone has spare HD's laying around. some might.. of course a tape 
drive or DVD or even CD could be used to save/store/protect important 
data as well. (I use all the above)

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>>it just means you like short-cuts for newbs too.
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>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.
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>>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.
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>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.
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this is way past newb stuff. yea you can have a diskless workstation 
sure. and use bootp and 100 other things too, but this is way off the 
original topic. This also says you have a server and working knowledge 
of linux to go to that extreme.. if I remember correctly this all 
started as a newbie asking about upgrading from a HD.. and I just said I 
hoped he was making CD images! :)

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