On 3/26/06, Gilboa Davara <gilboad(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 15:32 +0200, tony wrote:
> I have a machine that I _have_ to upgrade via yum (no CD drive and no
> bootable USB key).
>
> Yesterday I managed to upgrade from FC2 to FC4. I then installed the
> fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm
>
> Reboot and yum -y upgrade but yum only sees the FC4 repository... Any
> clues greatly appreciated.
>
> Tony
>
Can you setup network boot?
If he already has a Linux install, he can boot the installer through
GRUB. I have done this a couple of times when I didn't want to bother
with burning a CD or setting up network booting. It would work well
for booting a machine without a CD.
Basically, it involves copying vmlinuz and initrd.imb from
images/pxeboot in the Fedora repository to /boot and adding a entry to
/etc/grub.conf to boot them.
title Fedora Install
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz
initrd /initrd.img
- Ian