Best way to upgrade to T2

[Mark Haney]

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 11:30, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Mark Haney <mhaney at interactsys.com> said:
> > What's the best way to upgrade to Test 2 without wasting CD's?  I want
> > to do an FTP install, but don't really want to waste a CD for the
> > boot.iso file.  IS there a way around that?
> 
> If you already have a running system, do (of course you should change
> the wget lines to your favorite mirror):
> 
> su -
> cd /boot
> mkdir fc3t2
> cd fc3t2
> wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/2.91/i386/os/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
> wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/2.91/i386/os/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
> grubby --title "FC3t2 installer" --add-kernel=/boot/fc3t2/vmlinuz --initrd=/boot/fc3t2/initrd.img --args='ramdisk_size=8192'

Chris, this was perfect.  It works well with VMware (which is where I
have T1 installed).  This is the best thing since sliced bread (okay
maybe not, but I learned something!)


> 
> -- 
> Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
> I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

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Mark Haney
Network Administrator
InterAct Public Safety Systems
mhaney at interactsys.com
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