upgrading from FC1 to FC2 with yum!

[Chalonec Roger]

Has anyone experience with updating with the install CDROMS?

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[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Timothy Murphy
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 5:03 PM
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Subject: Re: upgrading from FC1 to FC2 with yum!


W. Guy Thomas wrote:

> 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.

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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