--- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 16:00 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > > At 6:54 AM -0500 6/1/05, Basil Copeland wrote: > > >On 5/31/05, Sam Johnson <johnsonsamc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> So, all I have to do is download the FC4 boot.iso, burn it, boot from > > >> the disc, and then what? > > >> > > >> Also, someone mentioned a hard drive install. Seems like a good > > >> idea... How does that work? > > >> > > > > > >You will still have to download the ISO's for a hard drive install. > > >The only real advantage is that you avoid burning the iso's to cd's, > > >and the feeding and reading of the cd's during the upgrade. You'll > > >need to be able to access the hard drive, of course, either locally or > > >remotely. > > > > I tried to do a hard drive install, and ended up burning CDs anyway. > > Although one is supposed to be able to put the .iso's on a FAT32 volume, > > the installer seems only to allow paths starting with, umm, some unix path > > like /foo/bar/, as anything I typed had that path prefixed to it in the > > error message, so it seems to be impossible to refer to my C: drive. > > The installer asks for a partition name and directory. So if you dumped > the ISO images into C:\Fedora and C: was known to Linux as /dev/hda1, > you'd tell the installer to find the ISO images on /dev/hda1 in > directory /Fedora. Simple. > > Paul. > -- > Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Question: Can an upgrade be done using yum or up2date? Many thanks and best wishes! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
