upgrading from FC1 to FC2 with yum!

W. Guy Thomas mrguytx at austin.rr.com
Sat Oct 2 21:17:57 UTC 2004


Timothy Murphy wrote:

>W. Guy Thomas wrote:
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>>the reason I am doing this is because the cdrom is dead in this laptop,
>>and when I smbmount a cd to do an upgrade from my XP machine, Fedora
>>freaks out when I have to swap cd's. So this is my only choice.
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>It's fairly easy to update from the hard disk, as has been suggested.
>Download the ISO images to say /archive .
>Then run "mount -o loop /archive/FC2-i386-disc1.iso /mnt/cdrom"
>Then create a directory /boot/fedora, and
>"cd /mnt/cdrom; cp -a isolinux/* /boot/fedora/".
>Then add a stanza to /etc/grub.conf like this
>==============================================
>title Fedora Core Boot
>        root (hd0,1)
>        kernel /fedora/vmlinuz
>        initrd /fedora/initrd.img
>==============================================
>[Nb I have a separate /boot partition.]
>
>Now when you reboot you should be offered this as an option,
>and that will take you into the installation.
>
>I have to do this on my Sony Picturebook (C1VFK)
>because the Fedora installation does not have a driver
>for the Sony CD-reader.
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I would use that option but this laptop only has a 4 gig hard drive and 
I only have 1 gig free. Not enouch space for all 4 iso's.
I wish I could!
Thanks though.

=G




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