At 12:19 AM -0400 6/3/07, William Case wrote: >Hi; > >I have been following the discussions on this list regarding how to >install F7 without a DVD. I plan to do my own install over the next few >days. After reading the Release Notes and the Installation Guide I >thought I had a strategy worked out. Now you guys scare me. > >I have two hard drives. One is hda on which I keep my WindowsXP system. >On that drive I have a 10GB ext3 partition on which I have the old FC6 >CD.iso.images I downloaded when FC6 was new. I will delete those FC6 >images. My second drive, hdb, is where I have currently installed FC6 > >I do not have a DVD. I don't have any use for a DVD except for, perhaps >some time in the future, burning F7 DVD images. > >I had planned to do the following: > > 1. Download the DVD.iso.image to my ext3 partition on hda. > 2. Download the rescue.iso to my ext3 partition on hda. > 3. Burn the rescue.iso to a CD using my still existing FC6's > cdrecord/nautilus/whatever. > 4. Boot with the rescue CD to install; then use the askmethod to > direct anaconda to find the iso.images on hda and do a clean > install on hdb. This is similar to what I do, and should work. >Seemed simple. But, I have had the experience a couple of versions ago >of completely blowing an install; screwing up my MBR; being left with no >Linux of any kind; and trying to get everything repaired through >WindowsXP. That was fun. ... Make a backup before upgrading. You don't need to back up the OS. You do need /etc, /boot, /root, /home, and possibly /user/local or /opt, and the output from "rpm -qa --last". Either dump or tar will work. Though a copy of the MBR might be useful, it might also cause trouble. The MBR contains the block offset of grub stage 2, which may well be replaced with a new one elsewhere by the upgrade. It is better to use the Rescue CD and do a grub-install (?) in case of difficulty. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
