upgrading from FC1 to FC2 with yum!

W. Guy Thomas mrguytx at austin.rr.com
Sun Oct 3 20:06:35 UTC 2004



William Anderson wrote:

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> If you can mount the CD-ROM from a Windows box, if you have the disk
> space, copy all of the RPMs into one directory and mount that. You
> should end up with all of the RPMs in the Fedora/RPMS directory.
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> I have done this in the past using a NFS mount from another Linux box on
> the network. This eases and speeds the installation of Linux onto many
> computers over a network (no swapping CDROMS).
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> This is the way that the DVD install disk is laid out.
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> Hopefully this helps
>
> William


I have all the RPMS copied to Fedora/RPMS on my XP box and I can mount 
to it.
However, I have no idea what file to run to begin the upgrade.
Does  anyone know how to begin an install from this way?

Thanks.

=G




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