Re: FC5 => F8 upgrade : advice? SOLVED

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On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:25:55 +0000, I Beartooth wrote:

> I've come into possession of an otherwise nice machine (so I'm told; I
> don't speak hardware) that still has Fedora Core 5 installed. I want to
> upgrade it to F8 now, and F10 once that's released.

	Since the machine has only a CD drive, and can read from my 
external USB DVD drive (if you smack it upside the head with a 2x4 -- 
i.e., find the way to get it to, which is well buried), but adamantly 
refuses to boot from it; and since I have CDs for FC6 but only DVDs for 
F7 and F8; this became a problem. My heartfelt thanks for the advice 
here, an indispensable life-saver as usual!

	The first trick was to mount the DVD, first for F7 and then for 
F8, on another machine; find boot.iso; copy that to a CD; then put the CD 
in the project machine's onboard drive, and plug the external DVD drive, 
with the medium for F7 or F8 respectively, inside, *directly* [cf 
footnote] into the machine to be upgraded.

	It did fine when with F7 I finally hit that combination of 
things, and it's in process of doing it now with F8. (both are respins, 
btw; all hail fedoraunity.org!)

	FOOTNOTE : 

	My KVM switch (MiniView G-CSIO4U) has two extra USB ports, which 
make it a server for pretty much any peripheral, or so it claims. I keep 
my printer plugged into one of them, and that works -- so long as I don't 
switch to machine B while printing from machine A. (That stops the 
printer cold till I go back to A.)

	The machine in question actually *reads* from the external DVD 
drive better when that's plugged into the KVM switch; and it goes right 
on reading it while I'm switched to any other machine.

	But long experience has corroborated over and over that the drive 
must be plugged directly into any machine receiving an install or 
upgrade. The boot.iso CD is the key to that in this instance.

	END FOOTNOTE

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Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
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Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.

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