Hello Nigel,
That's what I get for jumping to the solution before stating the problem.
I do not have a DVD burner, I thought I could upgrade from a hard drive image instead of a CD or DVD image, but I see from your post that I cannot do it this way.
After reading the rest of your post, I'm guessing I should go all the way back to the beginning.
I have backed up all files that I need from my FC1 machine to a Windows XP share on my home network, so I have no problem replacing FC1 with FC5 rather than doing the upgrade. The XP machine has a CD burner on it. I downloaded the 5 FC5 files FC-5-i386-disc1.iso, ... FC-5-i386-disc5.iso and FC-5-i386-rescuecd.iso, and sha1sum successfully matches on all of them.
The problem is that I can only successfully burn disc1, disc4, and the rescuecd using CDR Tools Front End for Windows v1.4 Final. I have tried time and time again to burn disc2, disc3, and disc5 without success. The FC5 CD tester during installation complains about errors on them.
So that's when I went to try a hard drive-based install of FC5.
And the impetus to go to FC5? Because the latest versions of Mozilla/Firefox plugins require GTK 2.4 or above. I thought of just upgrading the gtk package but I don't know how many dependencies there are, so rather than sort all that out, I thought I'd replace FC1 with FC5.
Suggestions? Thanks again for your time.
Phil
On Sunday 02 July 2006 15:52, phil brogan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am currently running FC 1 and want to install FC 5. I successfully
> downloaded the FC 5 DVD install image FC-5-i386-DVD.iso, and sha1sum
> successfully matches.
>
> Here's my fstab (the FC-5-i386-DVD.iso file resides on the /dev/hdd
> volume):
>
> LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
> LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
> none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
> /dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660
> noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
> noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
> /dev/hdd /hdd ext3 defaults 1 1
>
> Here's my grub.conf:
>
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
> # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
> # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
> # root (hd0,0)
> # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdb1
> # initrd /initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/hda
> default=0
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
> initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img
>
> How do I tell GRUB to boot from the file /hdd/phil/FC-5-i386-DVD.iso
> (where /hdd is the mount point of /dev/hdd)?
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
>
> - Phil
Hi Phil. I'm a bit confused about your situation. You've downloaded the .iso
for FC5, correct?
Presuming that you have a DVD writer, I presume that you have burnt the
the .iso to a writeable DVD disc, using K3b, or something.
You cannot boot a downloaded .iso that resides on a harddrive partition. it
first has to be burned to a DVD, and then FC5 needs to be installed using
your newly burned DVD via the DVD ROM drive. Your BIOS needs to be set for
booting from CDROM as well.
I don't know if you are wanting to upgrade FC1 to FC5. This is a very big
jump, and may well not succeed.
It might be better if you have free space on your harddrives to create a dual
boot install. FC1, and FC5.
Post back, as we need to have a bit more information.
Nigel.
