Pierre Sarrazin wrote:
> Hi. Is it possible to upgrade to Fedora 7 from the Live CD?
>
> I'm trying to upgrade a CD-only Fedora 5 machine to Fedora 7.
> Clicking on the "Install to Hard Drive" icon starts the Fedora
> Installer, which only offers to do a fresh install, but not an
> upgrade.
>
> If the Live CD does not support upgrading, then how can I
> reliably upgrade a Fedora 5 system on a CD-only machine?
I think Rahul has answered your questions.
I'd just add that I upgraded from a FC-5 system
on a machine without a DVD drive
(I'm not even sure if the CD drive works properly)
by downloading the DVD iso to a hard drive,
running "mount -o loop /mnt *.iso"
and copying /mnt/isolinux/ to /boot/Fedora-7 .
Then I added a stanza to grub.conf
title Fedora-7 boot
root (hd0,1)
kernel /Fedora-7/isolinux/vmlinuz
initrd /Fedora-7/isolinux/initrd.img
When I booted into this I could choose the upgrade option.
Incidentally, this took 6 hours on my 450MHz PIII machine
with 400MB RAM.
But there were no problems at all with the upgrade.
I don't necessarily agree that a clean install is better than an upgrade.
It depends what your machine is for.
In my case, the machine is my "server",
and it would have taken ages to setup all the config files again -
for CUPS, httpd, MySQL, shorewall, NFS, etc.
But I did a clean install on my laptop,
where I didn't need to set up anything except ssh and a CUPS client.
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