Upgrade to FC4 from FC3 without having to re download and then burn cds and recreate partition?

Jimmy McMillan jimmy at freshstation.org
Tue May 31 21:02:50 UTC 2005


Yes, as long as you have patience ;0


Sam Johnson wrote:

>Will 3MB cable work?
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>On 5/31/05, Jared Buck <JBuck814366460 at aol.com> wrote:
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>>On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 16:04 -0400, Elliot Lee wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 31 May 2005, Sam Johnson wrote:
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>>>>I am very excited about the soon release of Fedora Core 4.  However, I
>>>>want to upgrade from Fedora Core 3 in an easier way than doing the
>>>>procedure that is required for the first install you do, downloading
>>>>all of the ISOs, then burning them to discs, and then use Disk Druid
>>>>to erase partition (and all of my lovely data) and recreate it.
>>>>I hear of alot of people saying that they upgraded, and am curious
>>>>about how it is done.
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>>>If you have a fast Internet connection, you can download boot.iso, burn it
>>>to a CD, and then kick off an HTTP install by booting off that.
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>>>Without a fast 'net connection, you can download all the ISOs, and do an
>>>upgrade from them. That will save you from the repartitioning and
>>>recreating bit.
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>>>Best,
>>>-- Elliot
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>>I have a DSL line, does that count? :)  where would I find boot.isos,
>>then?
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>>Jared
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