Philip Walden wrote:
Philip Walden wrote:
Frank Cox wrote:
On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:42:05 -0700
Knute Johnson <knute@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
You already have a mail server and a desktop machine. Why not copy the
dvdimage and host a nfs server on one (which will take you about 3
minutes to
set up), and boot off of the cdrom boot.iso on the other; upgrade
it. Then copy
the dvd image to the other, host a nfs server on that, and upgrade it.
Assuming that they are in the same room (or can be brought into the
same room)
it won't take any longer to do it this way than it would take to
shuffle
all of those CD's around. Really
I can try that.
A short log of my alternative Fedora 7 upgrade from FC6 install on an
HP OB6000.
1. Thought I try the iso on the hard drive. So I copied the F-7-DVD
iso to my hard drive. Did not work because as I found out later in
the install guide, in a special note box: "Cannot Install from LVM
Partitions. You cannot use ISO files on partitions controlled by
LVM (Logical Volume Management).". LVM is the default install for
my laptop. Seems like a bad mis-direction taking away CDs, giving
you the iso on hard drive option, but getting you on the LVM
catch-22.
2. http: It was not clear as to what you had to make available via
http. Made the F-7 DVD iso accessible. The installer complained.
3. Mounted the DVD iso and made the contents accessible via http and
was able to proceed.
The upgrade install is still in progress. Cross your fingers.
The finger crossing did not work. It hung on "Checking dependencies in
packages" with the progress dialog at <10%, no disk activity, the cursor
would not track and the spinning wait cursor froze.
Restarted and this time I got several hours into the install to "5 of
864 completed Installing glibc-common - 2.6-3.i386". Same thing, no disk
activity, the cursor would not track and the spinning wait cursor froze.
At this point I suspect my original FC6 is busted. Any suggestions
before I start with a complete, from scratch including disk reformat? I
have seen elsewhere in this list that Fedora 7 hangs and is buggy.
Should I give up and go back to FC6 for now.
