Fedora 6 to 7

Pete · External Since: Mar 08, 2007 Posts: 138

I just bought Fedora 6.
Can it be upgraded over the web, or does it require a full reinstall?

kurt · External Since: Oct 22, 2005 Posts: 46

Pete wrote:
> I just bought Fedora 6.
> Can it be upgraded over the web, or does it require a full reinstall?

I don't know why you bought Fedora 6, it is FREE! But you can download
the installation files from any of the mirrors and use your preferred
method to upgrade or do a fresh install. There's not much difference in
the time requirements either way, and most would say do a full install
rather than upgrade.

....kurt

Pete · External Since: Mar 08, 2007 Posts: 138

kurt wrote:
> Pete wrote:
>
>> I just bought Fedora 6.
>> Can it be upgraded over the web, or does it require a full reinstall?
>
>
> I don't know why you bought Fedora 6, it is FREE! But you can download
> the installation files from any of the mirrors and use your preferred
> method to upgrade or do a fresh install. There's not much difference in
> the time requirements either way, and most would say do a full install
> rather than upgrade.
>
> ...kurt

The iso is to burn on a DVD.
I have a CD burner, but not a DVD burner.
Guess I'm out of luck.

Pete · External Since: Mar 08, 2007 Posts: 138

kurt wrote:
> Pete wrote:
>
>> I just bought Fedora 6.
>> Can it be upgraded over the web, or does it require a full reinstall?
>
>
> I don't know why you bought Fedora 6, it is FREE! But you can download
> the installation files from any of the mirrors and use your preferred
> method to upgrade or do a fresh install. There's not much difference in
> the time requirements either way, and most would say do a full install
> rather than upgrade.
>
> ...kurt
You're probably right.
I bought Fedora 6 because it came with lots of disks.
-Pete

General Schvantzkoph · External Since: Dec 29, 2004 Posts: 1199

On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:02:08 -0400, Pete wrote:

> kurt wrote:
>> Pete wrote:
>>
>>> I just bought Fedora 6.
>>> Can it be upgraded over the web, or does it require a full reinstall?
>>
>>
>> I don't know why you bought Fedora 6, it is FREE! But you can download
>> the installation files from any of the mirrors and use your preferred
>> method to upgrade or do a fresh install. There's not much difference in
>> the time requirements either way, and most would say do a full install
>> rather than upgrade.
>>
>> ...kurt
>
> The iso is to burn on a DVD.
> I have a CD burner, but not a DVD burner. Guess I'm out of luck.

A DVD burner costs as little as $28, treat yourself to one.

http://tinyurl.com/352g6q

Pete · External Since: Mar 08, 2007 Posts: 138

General Schvantzkoph wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:02:08 -0400, Pete wrote:
>
>
>>kurt wrote:
>>
>>>Pete wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I just bought Fedora 6.
>>>>Can it be upgraded over the web, or does it require a full reinstall?
>>>
>>>
>>>I don't know why you bought Fedora 6, it is FREE! But you can download
>>>the installation files from any of the mirrors and use your preferred
>>>method to upgrade or do a fresh install. There's not much difference in
>>>the time requirements either way, and most would say do a full install
>>>rather than upgrade.
>>>
>>>...kurt
>>
>>The iso is to burn on a DVD.
>>I have a CD burner, but not a DVD burner. Guess I'm out of luck.
>
>
> A DVD burner costs as little as $28, treat yourself to one.
>
> http://tinyurl.com/352g6q

It is a special compact machine and will not accept a normal writer/reader.
Can you install Debian from an external usb DVD reader/writer?
-Pete

General Schvantzkoph · External Since: Dec 29, 2004 Posts: 1199

On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 01:52:12 +0000, Pete wrote:

> General Schvantzkoph wrote:
>> On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:02:08 -0400, Pete wrote:
>>
>>
>>>kurt wrote:
>>>
>>>>Pete wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I just bought Fedora 6.
>>>>>Can it be upgraded over the web, or does it require a full reinstall?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I don't know why you bought Fedora 6, it is FREE! But you can download
>>>>the installation files from any of the mirrors and use your preferred
>>>>method to upgrade or do a fresh install. There's not much difference
>>>>in the time requirements either way, and most would say do a full
>>>>install rather than upgrade.
>>>>
>>>>...kurt
>>>
>>>The iso is to burn on a DVD.
>>>I have a CD burner, but not a DVD burner. Guess I'm out of luck.
>>
>>
>> A DVD burner costs as little as $28, treat yourself to one.
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/352g6q
>
> It is a special compact machine and will not accept a normal
> writer/reader. Can you install Debian from an external usb DVD
> reader/writer? -Pete

Check your BIOS to see if you can set it to boot from an external device.

Pete · External Since: Mar 08, 2007 Posts: 138

>
> Check your BIOS to see if you can set it to boot from an external device.

Excellent point.

Kevin Snodgrass · External Since: Oct 20, 2006 Posts: 43

Pete wrote:
> The iso is to burn on a DVD.
> I have a CD burner, but not a DVD burner.
> Guess I'm out of luck.

Download the CD isos.

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/iso/

Also available in X86_64 and PPC versions...

Rich Leitner · External Since: Jul 11, 2005 Posts: 37

Kevin Snodgrass wrote:
> Pete wrote:
>> The iso is to burn on a DVD.
>> I have a CD burner, but not a DVD burner.
>> Guess I'm out of luck.
>
> Download the CD isos.
>
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/iso/
>
> Also available in X86_64 and PPC versions...

Pete, I run Fedora 7 on several machines that have no DVD drive. It's a
bit more trouble for you, but you can download the DVD iso, burn it to a
DVD on another machine that has a drive, then copy the files to either a
web server or ftp server (both of which your old FC6 machine should
have) so you can do a network install. Then download the 'Minimal Boot
CD', boot from that and follow the instructions. Yeah, it's a pain to
set up the servers from scratch if you haven't done it before, so this
may be more trouble than it's worth, but it will get you Fedora 7
without having to buy a DVD drive.

Rich