Upgrading to F10 without DVD

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Jan 26 17:00:35 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 08:12 -0800, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> writes:
> > Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
> >>   I don't have a drive to write to DVD (only to CD). How can I upgrade
> >> from F9 to F10?
> >
> > Plenty of methods. Some have already been suggested:
> > * preupgrade
> > * netinstall
> > * HD install
> 
> also:
> 
>    usb thumbdrive install.
> 
> Used this for installing on an Acer Aspire One which doesn't have any
> CD or DVD.
> 
> The advantage of the latter is you now have a thumbdrive you can take
> to the local electronic retailer and install a real OS on all the demo
> machines. ;-)
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yeah but that isn't suitable for upgrade - at least not the Live-USB

It may be possible to use livecd-tools to image a USB key from the
Fedora-DVD iso image and boot that but I've never tried.

Craig




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