On 10/28/2010 01:50 AM, Moray Henderson wrote:
This could bite upgrades. Last year I had to put together upgrades from CentOS-4-based systems to CentOS-5-based, using CDs not DVD or network. [snip] The only way I could reduce the upgrade to a single CD [snip]
It is easy to boot from CD to the GRUB screen, edit the kernel command line parameter "root=" to point to a USB drive which will be recognized by the to-be-booted kernel, and then run anaconda (or any system) from USB, even USB1.1. I use this to run an old laptop (which boots only from CD or harddrive) using no battery-draining moving parts after boot, treating an 8 GB USB2.0 flash memory drive as a "solid state disk."
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