[plug] RedHat upgrading...

[Len Bird]

One way around the BIOS CD-ROM boot is to cd to /dosutils on the CD and
simply type "autorun"   This works from DOS/Windoze, I have not tried it
from an existing Linux installation, but it should be worth a try.

Regards,  Len Bird

Peter Wright wrote:

> 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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