On Friday 19 December 2003 14:48, Ghod wrote: > using HD upgrade is fine and dandy.. but "NOT" for newbies!!!! EVER! This is nonsense. I've always installed (from RH-5 or 6) from the hard disk, and never had any problem. (I don't have a CD drive on my Sony C1VFK laptop.) If you boot from the bootdisk floppy you are asked if you want to install from CD or hard disk, and if you choose hard disk you are asked what partition and directory your ISO images are on. The instructions seem to me to be perfectly simple to follow by anybody, newbie or not. In fact my question is the opposite. I don't understand why people go to all the trouble of burning CDs to install Fedora-1 when you might as well install or upgrade from hard disk. I can see the point if you want to install on lots of machines, or maybe if you have no machine running Linux. But most people seem to be running RH-9, in which case it seems to me much simpler to upgrade from hard disk. [Incidentally, I don't have a floppy drive either on my laptop, but have always found it easy enough to abstract the bootdisk from the ISO, by -- in brief -- mount -o loop /windows/Fedora/yarrow-i386-disc1.iso /mnt/cdrom mount -o loop /mnt/cdrom/images/bootdisk.img /mnt/floppy cp -a /mnt/floppy/* /boot/fedora/ and adding a stanza in /etc/grub.conf to boot from this directory.] But that's a different story. My main point is that it's easy and safe to install or upgrade from hard disk. Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
