[plug] RedHat upgrading...

[Peter Wright]

Afternoon,

Quick (well, relatively quick :) question:

I've got a Toshiba laptop with RH 6.0 currently installed on it. This
laptop has a CDROM drive, but it does _not_ have a floppy drive (an
external one can be connected, but apparently there's not one
available nearby at the moment.

Now I want to upgrade this machine from 6.0 to 6.2 - however, my
understanding was that the normal way of doing this is to reboot from
the CD or a floppy as per the normal installation process, then select
Upgrade instead of Install on the initial screen.

Because of the current problem with not having a floppy drive to boot
from (and I can't seem to access the BIOS to tell it to boot from the
CDROM drive (as seems traditional with Toshiba laptops, *grumble*)), I
wondered if there is in fact some way to upgrade the machine from
within Linux? ie. Could I just boot into RH 6.0 normally, mount the
CD, run some given 'upgrade' program, and reboot into a nice updated
RH 6.2 system?

Any up-to-date Redhatters out there know if this can be done (and if
so, how?)

Thanks for any suggestions,

Pete.
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