Upgrading to F10 without DVD

M A Young m.a.young at durham.ac.uk
Sun Jan 25 19:29:39 UTC 2009


On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:

>  I burned a F10 Live CD, but then found out that you can not upgrade,
> only install.

A live CD install essentially just takes a copy of the live CD image and 
installs it on a disk, so naturally you can't use that method to upgrade.

But since this is only running anaconda behind the scenes it ought to be 
possible to run anaconda with different options to do an upgrade using 
network based repositories to supply the packages. It won't give you any 
advantages over the netinst.iso image, but it ought to work.

preupgrade is probably easier though if you have enough free diskspace. 
You run preupgrade and it prepares the upgrade for you, downloading the 
relevant packages and building them into a mini-repository so that you can 
install them after a reboot. It helps though if you have something like 
130M free on whatever partition contains /boot as some have had trouble 
with the alternative it uses if this space isn't free.

 	Michael Young




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