On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 19:30 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > Steven C. Liu wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have the FC4 DVD iso on my FC2 box. I don't have a DVD drive on that > > box. I can mount it as an iso9660 fs, but I can't figure out how to > > upgrade my FC2 system via that method. I bought an external USB DVD > > drive, but the system wouldn't boot to that drive. Yes, I can burn a > > DVD from my XP box. (I didn't play around with the BIOS...) > > Burn your DVD, then go fetch Smart Boot Manager (SBM) > (http://btmgr.webframe.org/), stick it on a floppy and boot the floppy. > It'll let you boot from darn near any device you have, whether your BIOS > understands it or not. > > SBM, IMHO, is a damned useful tool. I think you missed the part where he said he didn't have a DVD drive on that box? If you can put the DVD ISO on a separate partition (not LVM, not your root partition), you should be able to do a hard disk install: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc4/sn-installing-from-harddrive.html Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
