Re: Hard disk upgrade

2011-05-29 Thread Timothy Murphy
Mike Williams wrote: >> Then I re-booted with the grub stanza >> - >> title Fedora 15 install >>root (hd0,4) >>kernel /vmlinuz repo=hd:/dev/sda5:/Fedora-15-i386-DVD.iso >>initrd /initrd.img >> - >> >> I just did a hd install m

Re: Hard disk upgrade

2011-05-29 Thread Frank Chiulli
ings.  I've started moving them all > out of the way before an install.   I put all of the .something dirs in > ~/old_dot_dirs and let the install create new ones. > >> >> However, I had one problem trying to do a hard disk upgrade >> on a machine with no internet a

Re: Hard disk upgrade

2011-05-29 Thread Mike Williams
/old_dot_dirs and let the install create new ones. > However, I had one problem trying to do a hard disk upgrade > on a machine with no internet access, but running Fedora-14. > I copied Fedora-15-i386-DVD.iso to / (/dev/sda5) via a USB stick, > and copied isolinux/vmlinuz and isolin

Hard disk upgrade

2011-05-29 Thread Timothy Murphy
I've found that upgrading Fedora-14 to Fedora-15 has been very simple, with no problems at all, even though I am keeping the same /home partition, which has caused problems (mainly with KDE) in previous upgrades. However, I had one problem trying to do a hard disk upgrade on a machine wi