On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:02:50 -0300 (ADT) bdk@xxxxxx wrote: > If not how does one go from FC5/6 to Fedora 7 without a DVD drive? Simplest way is to put the DVD iso image on a hard disk partition which will remain intact during the install of F7, and make a CD from the boot.iso file found in images/boot.io on the DVD, then boot that CD and when it asks how to install, point it at the DVD iso image on the hard disk. An alternate technique that doesn't even need a CD drive (since you already have a working F5 or F6) is to copy the initrd.img and vmlinuz files from the isolinux directory on the DVD image into your /boot directory on the system you are upgrading, and make a /boot/grub/grub.conf entry to boot the vmlinuz kernel with the initrd.img image. Reboot your system, choose that kernel, and the installer will start and you can point it to the DVD iso image just as above. If you have another computer, you can probably put the DVD image on it and do a network install rather than a hard disk install (put you'll need to properly setup HTTP, FTP, or NFS access to it, so it gets a bit more complex).
