Timothy Murphy wrote:
W. Guy Thomas wrote:
the reason I am doing this is because the cdrom is dead in this laptop,
and when I smbmount a cd to do an upgrade from my XP machine, Fedora
freaks out when I have to swap cd's. So this is my only choice.
It's fairly easy to update from the hard disk, as has been suggested. Download the ISO images to say /archive . Then run "mount -o loop /archive/FC2-i386-disc1.iso /mnt/cdrom" Then create a directory /boot/fedora, and "cd /mnt/cdrom; cp -a isolinux/* /boot/fedora/". Then add a stanza to /etc/grub.conf like this ============================================== title Fedora Core Boot root (hd0,1) kernel /fedora/vmlinuz initrd /fedora/initrd.img ============================================== [Nb I have a separate /boot partition.]
Now when you reboot you should be offered this as an option, and that will take you into the installation.
I have to do this on my Sony Picturebook (C1VFK) because the Fedora installation does not have a driver for the Sony CD-reader.
I would use that option but this laptop only has a 4 gig hard drive and I only have 1 gig free. Not enouch space for all 4 iso's.
I wish I could!
Thanks though.
=G
