On 6/2/07, Knute Johnson <knute@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On 6/2/07, Philip Walden <pwaldenlinux@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I was looking at the download area an only the DVD iso is available. >> >> My older PC will only boot from a CD. Is there a download URL for the CD >> iso files? >> >> Phil > >If you checked the topics flying through the list today you would have >learned that the multi-disc CD option is no longer available. > >You can use either the Live CD or the Rescue CD to perform an initial >installation. Packages not included on the Live CD to hard drive >installation may be obtained using YUM. That works fine but you can't upgrade an existing installation without a DVD drive or a complicated (and not really documented so that a linux blivet can do it) set of procedures. I am really disappointed by this. I don't want to have to go buy a DVD drive for my mail server which is an older computer (with no guarantee that it will work). I just wanted to upgrade my mail server to F7 without a lot of hassles. The live CDs are fun to play with but I would have rather had a dead CD that I could use to upgrade my FC5 and FC6 installations. I did install the F7 live CD on my desktop but I had to destroy the partitions that had xubuntu on them to get it to install. I didn't really care about the xubuntu but I would have rather kept it. I saw somebody complain that it doesn't work with his laptop and the answer he got was "there is always somebody's laptop that it won't work with." I'd rather trade all the trick stuff for "it works with everybody's computer" just like Winblows. -- Knute Johnson Molon Labe... -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
I'm not going to add yet another method that you could upgrade from FC5 to F7 as there is already a plethora of information about that. I would, however, advise against do that type of ugrade. Sometimes they work, sometimes not. I recently migrated all of my servers to CentOS5 (I can't afford RHEL, as I am a mere mortal) because I was in a similar situation. I had a file server running FC4 still, and instead of going from FC4 to FC6, just to have to upgrade in less than 6 months, I moved to something that has a longer life span. I'm only suggesting something like this because you'll have to go to about the same lengths to upgrade 2 versions to migrate to the enterprise version (backups, etc.). CentOS5 has a lot in common with FC6, so there should be little adjustment if you are already familiar with FC6. --Tim -- Remember: hDDVDProcessingKey == 0x09F911029D74E35B D84156C5635688C0
