On Tue, 05 Apr 2016 08:19:55 +1000, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 05/04/16 08:04, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> On 04/04/2016 02:49 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: >>> On 04/04/16 10:30, Amadeus W.M. wrote: >>>> I haven't upgraded my machines in a while and I couldn't find any >>>> reference on how to install directly from the hard disk, without >>>> media. >>>> Is this still possible? None of my pcs boot off of a usb stick and >>>> the cdrom I think is failing on one of them, so I really need to >>>> install from the disk. Any suggestions? Thanks! >> >> Assuming that you have a separate /home partition, you can put the .iso >> file in /home and add a boot entry to your grub config. If you provide >> your partition layout, I could probably give you a working config chunk >> to put there. > Isn't booting from the iso image, or mounting the image as a loopback > device and running the installer from the mount point, going to install > the new version from scratch rather than doing an upgrade, which would > then mean that he would have to remember everything additional he had > installed and reinstall them if indeed he can (taking into account > whether there is an upgrade available in F23 or not and whether F23 has > the necessary dependencies for whatever the package is)? > > regards, > Steve > > >>> If you don't mind waiting a while for the upgrades to occur and you >>> have internet access, you could always install Fedup if it is not >>> already installed and run that to upgrade your system to the latest >>> version of Fedora. As I understand it that is the current recommended >>> method of system upgrading. >> >> He said he was on F20 currently and that's too far to jump using fedup. >> -- >> users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or >> change subscription options: >> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/ users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct >> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have >> a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > -- > users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or > change subscription options: > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a > question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org Yes, it does do a new install, but I don't mind that. Sure, I have to reconfigure printers, firewall, services, etc. but it's OK, it's good exercise. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
