going to FC4

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 19:30 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Steven C. Liu wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  
> > I have the FC4 DVD iso on my FC2 box.  I don't have a DVD drive on that 
> > box.  I can mount it as an iso9660 fs, but I can't figure out how to 
> > upgrade my FC2 system via that method.  I bought an external USB DVD 
> > drive, but the system wouldn't boot to that drive.  Yes, I can burn a 
> > DVD from my XP box.  (I didn't play around with the BIOS...)
> 
> Burn your DVD, then go fetch Smart Boot Manager (SBM)
> (http://btmgr.webframe.org/), stick it on a floppy and boot the floppy.
> It'll let you boot from darn near any device you have, whether your BIOS
> understands it or not.
> 
> SBM, IMHO, is a damned useful tool.

I think you missed the part where he said he didn't have a DVD drive on
that box?

If you can put the DVD ISO on a separate partition (not LVM, not your
root partition), you should be able to do a hard disk install:

http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/fedora-install-guide-en/fc4/sn-installing-from-harddrive.html

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>