[nylug-talk] Upgrading RH 7.1 from mountable .iso file...

[Bill Catlan]

My experience has been that the server is always full.

Bill


At 03:10 PM 5/14/2003, you wrote:
>You can get 1 free demo account from RHN, at least with RH 7.3 or RH8...
>
>Carl
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bill Catlan [mailto:wcatlan at yahoo.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 1:21 PM
>To: nylug-talk at nylug.org
>Subject: [nylug-talk] Upgrading RH 7.1 from mountable .iso file...
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I want to do a "wholesale" upgrade on my RH 7.1
>system.  I looked into joining the Red Hat Network,
>but its a bit pricey for my needs.  (BTW, are there
>any third-parties offering comparable services as RHN
>for RH systems?)  Anyway, to get my system "up2date"
>for free, I want to download an .iso image, store it
>on my hard drive (i don't have a cd burner), and do
>the upgrade from it.  This seems like it should be
>possible, as long as the RedHat upgrade method doesn't
>format drives and such.
>
>So, I'm thinking the first step is to get lilo (grub?)
>  to mount my .iso image as though it were a cdrom.  I
>have access to a remote host if doing a network
>upgrade is more feasible. Any thoughts or links to
>docs would be appreciated.  Thanks.
>
>Bill
>
>
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