On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 12:02 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > In the past I've upgraded using a set of CD iso's on my HD, with no need to > burn anything but a boot CD. Does this work with the DVD iso, as well? > (I've never used a DVD iso, so I don't know if they're just "bigger iso's" > or require their own special handling.) They are indeed just bigger ISOs. I've done NFS installs using a DVD ISO so I'd expect a hard disk to work that way too. > With the CD iso's I've loved not having to burn media and the ability to > run the whole upgrade in one pass with no shuffling of disks. Afterwards, I > mount the images loopback and create an RPM symlink farm for yum updates. A > single DVD image should make the latter easier, as I won't need a symlink > farm, just one to the single RPMS directory. (Does it include yum metadata?) I don't think it includes the metadata (the FC3 DVD didn't anyway). However, that can be fixed fairly easily: if you've loopback-mounted the DVD at (say) /srv/software/fc4/dvd then running "createrepo" in the /srv/software/fc4 directory should create a suitable set of metadata for using with yum. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
