upgrade from hard drive?

[Beartooth]

On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:12:36 +0930, Tim wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 14:56 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
>>  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.
> 
> You should be able to do it the same way that you can do a fresh install
> from an ISO on the hard drive.  Put the ISO file somewhere that's
> readable during the install routine, 

	Where is such a place? I have no idea what all Anaconda looks at 
besides the medium it's on.

> boot from the small net install /
> rescue disc, to start the install/upgrade, and tell it where the big DVD
> ISO file is located when prompted for the install source location.

	I found boot.iso in the big file at /root/, and am in process of 
trying to burn it to a CD; is that the right thing to burn?

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