I've found that upgrading Fedora-14 to Fedora-15 has been very simple, with no problems at all, even though I am keeping the same /home partition, which has caused problems (mainly with KDE) in previous upgrades. However, I had one problem trying to do a hard disk upgrade on a machine with no internet access, but running Fedora-14. I copied Fedora-15-i386-DVD.iso to / (/dev/sda5) via a USB stick, and copied isolinux/vmlinuz and isolinux/initrd.img to / (after "mount -o loop"). Then I re-booted with the grub stanza ------------------------- title Fedora 15 install root (hd0,4) kernel /vmlinuz repo=hd:/dev/sda5:/Fedora-15-i386-DVD.iso initrd /initrd.img ------------------------- This booted OK, up to the point where I chose my uk keyboard, but then said it could not find the (somewhat garbled) repo. Is there something wrong with the above line? If I omitted the repo=... then the machine booted fine, but then looked for an internet connection, which it did not have. [I actually solved the problem in the end by running a 20 metre ethernet cable up the stairs to the attic where the computer was.] There were two other probably unrelated side-issues: 1. I noticed that Knoppix-6.4.4 called the hard disk /dev/sde . 2. When I re-installed grub with Knoppix it booted Fedora-14 (and Windows XP) fine, but said that /vmlinuz was now an incompatible format. However, when I re-installed grub again with Fedora-14, /vmlinuz was accepted. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
