upgrading from FC1 to FC2 with yum!

[W. Guy Thomas]

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).
>
> This is the way that the DVD install disk is laid out.
>
> Hopefully this helps
>
> William
>
> W. Guy Thomas wrote:
> |
> | Timothy Murphy wrote:
> |
> |> W. Guy Thomas wrote:
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> |>
> |>>> Wow, this doesn't look good. It has completely stopped after the 
> first
> |>>> package libgcc. No disk activity, no nic activity.
> |>>>
> |>>
> |>> In you opinion do I let it sit or is my upgrade completely dead 
> and my
> |>> system hosed?
> |>> It has been this way for about 20 minutes...
> |>>
> |>
> |>
> |> I've no idea of the cause of this.
> |> But as a matter of interest, what yum command did you give?
> |>
> |> Had you run "yum update" under FC-1?> >
> |> I'm not a yum expert,
> |> but I do wonder if one runs "yum update"
> |> just before a new Fedora distribution,
> |> are there likely to be many more rpm updates involved?
> |>
> |>
> |>
> |>
> | I ran "yum upgrade".
> | According to the thread I read on redhat.com that was supposed to be 
> the
> | final command to do a complete upgrade.
> |
> | =G
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Yes, I thought of this same thing this morning.
So I want to copy the os files not the iso files then correct.
all in one folder.
but what do I actually RUN after I smbmount to this folder?
I have FC2 on 4 cds so I need to copy them all to the folder?

Thanks, I think this is a good idea.

G