I have a fresh install of Redhat 6.1 on my laptop and have the Redhat 7.2 CD to upgrade with, but the CD wont boot.
I can mount the CD and get to all the RPMs but I get loads of failed dependencies when trying to install the RPMS. Can I simply force the install or will this really mess things up?

The reason for my upgrade is to get my pcmcia NIC working (3com 10/100 Megahertz 3ccfe574bt), so the main RPM is kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.27-10.i386.rpm but I'd prefer to upgrade kernel and everything else in one go.

You can probably tell from what I've written that I'm a newbie and I apologise in advance for my stupidity but I've honestly looked everywhere for the answer!

Chopper :smash:

You will need to run the install program from the cdrom and choose upgrade system.

you can make a boot floppy to use for the installation the boot.img is in the images folder on the cd


boot the floppy and it will start the install

yeah and to make RH7.2 boot floppy from RH7.2 CD
cd into /mnt/cdrom/images make sure you mounted CD
put a blank floppy in the drive
and issue the following
dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440

Thanks for your help.
I decided to bin Redhat and go for Debian instead. Stuck in a floppy and installed via ftp! Woohoo!
Yes, I have no willpower, but hey, Redhat doesn't have apt!

Thanks again,
Chopper

You can do the same with redhat as well

Really?
I realise you have RPMs in Redhat but they won't find and install dependencies automatically, will they?
I found Installing/Upgrading in Redhat quite tedious - RPM -i, find it needs a pre-requisite - try and install that dependency only to find that too has dependencies

Chopper

the install image runs when you do ftp install and when you select the packages you want it will solve deps.


same thing when you upgrade the system

ftp install?
I think it's time I RTFM.


Thanks,
Chopper