update from Red Hat 9 to Fedora Core 2
I have an older PC which has:
Red Hat 9 installed 4 Gb Hard disk with 700Mb free Network card Floppy drive NO CDROM drive How can I update this from Red Hat 9 to Fedora Core 2 via a network connection using FTP ? What steps should I take? |
Here is what you want
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upg..._with_yum.html But i think you are going to need more than 700mb post back and tell if it works. |
Diskless Fedora Install
Mike Chirico Last Updated: Sun May 30 23:15:35 EDT 2004 The latest version of this document can be found at: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/s...a.txt?download UPGRADING TO FEDORA (DISKLESS INSTALL) It's possible to completely install Fedora by downloading the *.iso image, mount it to a loopback device, copy the Linux kernel images to /boot, modify grub, reboot, then have it find the *.iso image for the rest of the install. STEP 1: Download the complete DVD package. It's 4 GB: FC2-i386-DVD.iso from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...re/2/i386/iso/ STEP 2: Once downloaded check the md5sum md5sum FC2-i386-DVD.iso STEP 3: Create a directory off of root for mounting the iso image. mkdir /iso0 STEP 4: The DVD image file can be mounted with the following command: mount -o loop -t iso9660 /FC2-i386-DVD.iso /iso0 STEP 5: Copy /iso0/images/pxeboot to the /boot directory cp -r /iso0/images/pxeboot /boot/. STEP 6: Modify Grub ( /boot/grub/grub.conf )to include the following: title Fedora (INIT) root (hd0,2) kernel /pxeboot/vmlinuz initrd /pxeboot/initrd.img Special note: Look at the other grub entries "root (hd0,1)", perhaps it's listed as "root (hd3,0)" or (hd2,0). This must be the same, so change hd0 above to match the other entries. STEP 7: Make note of where FC2-i386-DVD.iso resides by issuing the "df" command. $ df . You'll need this location after reboot. It's something like /dev/hda1 or /dev/hdb2 STEP 8: Reboot. When asked for the location of the "iso" file select FILE on the Fedora menu. put in the /dev/hda1 location above. Note if it's in a subdirectory off of this filesystem there is a text box to enter that as well. The install should proceed on it's own from here. STEP 9: After the install it may be necessary to edit "/boot/grub/grub.conf" so that it will default boot with the new install by setting the "default=0" OTHER OPTIONS: Perhaps you're running Redhat 8.0 or Redhat 9 and only want to upgrade to the 2.6 kernel from source. Reference (This also includes information on creating your own 2.6 kernel modules): http://osdn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourc.../README_26.txt REFERENCES: http://fedora.redhat.com/download/ |
That would work but he only has 700mbs free.
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