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Hi JP:
* JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org> [2007-10-26 01:14:46 -0400]:
> I just finished an upgrade to Gutsy on my "kitchen" laptop. It went
> flawlessly, and I now have a MythTV frontend there too. (It works, but
> this laptop is an old Latitude P3 with 512M RAM--a tad slow for TV.) If
> I have any complaint about the upgrade, it's that it kept stopping to
> ask if I wanted to overwrite various modified config files. Of course I
> appreciate that, but you can't just fire and forget, you have to babysit.
>
> I love that you can now drag&drop "buttons" in the task bar to reorder
> them. Being the creature of habit that I am, that's a critical feature.
> Oh, and TuxPaint has some new brushes and a better organized "stamps"
> tool, which my 3.5yo likes. I don't have any hardware new enough to use
> the new eye-candy, which usually just annoys me anyway.
>
> But the really interesting thing is that this laptop is old and has no
> working CD ROM. So the initial install in Fall of 2006 was via a Debian
> netinst floppy set which I hacked in mid-stream to install Dapper
> instead. I then later upgraded Dapper to Feisty (which required an
> intermediate upgrade to Edgy IIRC). Now I'm running Gutsy. And it
> just...works. Try that with an RPM based system. Or a non-Linux
> system... :-) (How does Solaris do with that? I've never tried.)
FYI: upgrade w/o CDROM is not too hard Fedora/RHEL/Centos/etc:
1) Grab the pxeboot images, "initrd.img" and "vmlinuz". E.g. F7:
<mirror>/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/images/pxeboot/
2) Put them in /boot. I like to rename them also:
/boot/initrd.img.f7
/boot/vmlinuz.f7
3) Add an entry to /etc/grub.conf:
title F7 Installer
root (<whatever the other entries have>)
kernel /vmlinuz.f7
initrd /initrd.img.f7
4) Reboot, and pick the new entry in GRUB. Viola, no CDROM or floppy needed.
Any machine w/ GRUB can be upgraded/overwritten to any distro w/ pxe images
with that method. IIRC ubuntu has them also, but it's been a while.
Regards,
--
Mark M. Hoffman
mhoffman@lightlink.com
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