As others have stated upgrading CentOS/RedHat is not really an option
but the options below will allow you to use the ISO to do a fresh
install on the new disk.
On Thu, 2017-03-30 at 22:59 -0700, Michael Robinson wrote:
> The CentOS 7 iso is 7.8 gigs. My DVD-R media tops out at about
> half that
That is what I do, I carry one that uses something called MultiSystem, it
lets
me boot a whole bunch of them, then when I am showing off Linux distros I
boot several, and let people get an idea of what they are.
There are a whole lot of options for booting from a jump drive, I have not
used
a DVD
I agree with above wholeheartedly. I was trying to go with the flow of
dude's idea, but that 's a valid point about partitioning.
I don't even know if dd'ing to a different partition on a drive you weren't
trying to format would work.
a 5 dollar usb stick should do. Maybe 10 dollars if you have t
I would advise you against trying to install Linux to drive you just
booted from - the things will likely go wrong as soon as the installer
start partitioning the drive.
While you could pre-partition the drive for the install before booting
from it - avoiding partitioning - you could still run into
Install from usb key? https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
might fit on an 8gb, def a 16gb
Or maybe just dd the install file onto your partition and pretend its a usb
key and tell your bios to boot from that partition?
dd if=CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso of=/dev/sdb1
note that I put
The CentOS 7 iso is 7.8 gigs. My DVD-R media tops out at about
half that. The server I'm trying to upgrade would have to use
an external DVD drive in order to upgrade from a DVD.
I am trying to upgrade from CentOS 6.8 to CentOS 7.3. I want
to install CentOS 7.3 on a newly installed and unused
