upgrade from hard drive?
Beartooth
Beartooth at swva.net
Thu Sep 18 14:56:06 UTC 2008
I *think* it's possible to upgrade from a .iso on the hard drive
-- right? How?
I managed to upgrade FC5 to FC6, because I have CDs for that; but
I want to get clear to F8, and the machine I'm trying to upgrade has only
a CD drive.
If I plug in my external USB DVD drive, it's a big fight to get
it to acknowledge that drive exists; it refuses utterly to boot from it,
despite anything I do in the BIOS.
So last night I copied the DVD onto the hard drive. It is at /
root/_FU_20070912_7_i386_DVD_.iso -- as the copying function said, and as
nautilus duly displays.
Do I try to open it with FC6's anaconda?
Get it to display the contents of the .iso and open the anaconda
there? (I imagine that must be what it does if I upgrade a machine that
can boot from DVD.)
Or is there some strange madman's magic that I wot naught of?
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6;
Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2.0.3, Epiphany 2.20, Opera 9.27, Firefox 2.0
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
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