Best way to upgrade to T2

A. Kong ahwkong at ahwkong.com
Mon Sep 20 22:07:05 UTC 2004


That looks neat and simple!

For me, I have followed the yum method: 
http://linux.duke.edu/%7Eskvidal/misc/fc1-fc2-yum-hints.txt

Cheers,
AK

Mark Haney wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 11:30, Chris Adams wrote:
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>>Once upon a time, Mark Haney <mhaney at interactsys.com> said:
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>>>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'
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>
>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!)
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>>-- 
>>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
>Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) Kernel: 2.6.8-1.521 GNU/Linux 
>11:45:54 up 4:07, 2 users, load average: 2.20, 1.72, 1.60 
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