upgrading RH 9 system->Fedora with iso files and apt only

[bishop]

Klaasjan,

Do you have the time to write out a mini-howto on that?  I have a 
feeling that your instruction can help a few people following in your 
footsteps, and who may not have the opportunity to figure out a working 
solution by themselves.

Me, I need one that can reliably do it from 5000km away.  It'll be 
loop-mounted ISOs, apt-get and similar craziness, I think.  Or I need to 
book a flight.  8-)  Either way, I'm not the target audience, but I'm 
close.  ACME at cl says that CL can do it with just apt-get, and that's 
incredibly interesting.

  - bish

Klaasjan Brand wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 10:02, Didier Casse wrote:
> 
>>I have the yarrow's iso files on my HD in a RH9 system. Let's say I want
>>to upgrade selected packages using an "apt-get install" pointing to my
>>iso-mounted files, how do I do it?
>>
>>i.e I mount the iso into some /mnt/yarrow1, /mnt/yarrow 2 etc..
>>
>>Then what is the complete procedure to make my apt look into my own HD to
>>upgrade packages. Can anybody redirect me to the correct
>>resource or some literature hanging on the web? Thanks.
>>
>>Assume also that I do not wish to burn CDs! I do not want to use
>>apt-cdrom. Thanks.
> 
> 
> I just updated a RH9 system to FC1 by writing the bootdisk image to a
> floppy and directing the installer to the hd partition containing the
> iso's. It's working fine now...
> 
> I'm not sure, but maybe grub can boot those disk images as well?
> 

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