On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:56:06 +0000, I 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. > > If I plug in my external USB DVD drive, it's a big fight to get > it to acknowledge that drive exists; it refuses utterly to boot from it, > despite anything I do in the BIOS. The solution that worked is outlined in a post to my prior thread on this list, "FC5 => F8 upgrade." My heartfelt thanks to all who help[ed on both threads! -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 7, 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 2 & 3 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
