Hi,

On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 12:16:48AM +0300, Eran Tromer wrote:
> Whatever you do, *don't* do what I did, which is burning the first ISO, 
> booting from it and hoping that the installer would be willing to read 
> the rest of the ISOs from disk (it isn't, and my box was stuck in 
> mid-install until I got access to another CD burner). Apparently it's 
> either a floppy + ISOs, all three CDs, or a network install.

In that case, Dan, it should be trivial to "fake" a floppy+ISOs approach
by adding a suitable entry to grub (or lilo), something like

title Upgrade to 7.3
        kernel <path to a kernel you copied from the first ISO>
        initrd <also copied from ISO>

Note, I didn't try that.

> 
>    Regards,
>      Eran Tromer
> 
> 
> Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Last Sunday I installed Red Hat 7.2 :(  and now I would like to upgrade towards
> > 7.3. 
> > I have to isos on my harddisk, and I can see what's inside them. Is there a
> > simple way to do the upgrade, such as running an `install' script, or do I
> > really have to burn these isos down on plastic?
> > 
> > Doing rpm -F requires reverse-engineering of the dependecy tree, and seems
> > tiring. And I don't have a floppy, so I can't really start with a boot
> > diskette...
> > 
> > Any other ideas/links/flames-for-silly-question ?
> > 
> > Dan.
> > 
> > (I appologize if you heard this question before)
> > 
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