no DVD burner

[jayspame at comcast.net]

I read the howto (http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/solutions/ydl_5.0/ydl-net-config.shtml) but found it confusing.  I don't have a YDL DVD, can't afford to buy one, and can't burn one.  I have a cd burner on my windoz box and could burn a boot.iso from there if I had a link to dowload it.  I don't see why a webserver is necessary but I have apache running on osx if that is of any use.  I searched netinstall on the ts site, but didn't find anything useful.

Googling around, I found a free app called "magic disk" that looks like it can burn a dvd to flash or a partition, but I haven't tried it yet.  Can the mac disk utility or hdutil do anything like that?


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Aaron Johnson <ajohnson at terrasoftsolutions.com>
> Jim,
> You may want to consider buying a DVD box set from TSS as this is the 
> easiest way, other options include downloading and burning all the CD 
> images, or doing a netinstall only using a boot.iso.
> 
> Aaron
> 
> jayspame at comcast.net wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I've got YDL 3 and I want to upgrade to 5.  I don't have a DVD burner and I'm, 
> shall we say, pecuniarily challenged.
> >
> > Can I "burn" the DVD image to a flash drive and boot up from that?  Anybody 
> know how to do it?  How about on an unused hard drive or partition?  It seems 
> like this should be possible.
> >
> > Alternatively, is it possible to use yum or apt to upgrade from 3 to 5?  I ran 
> yum upgrade and got all my vers. 3 packages updated but I don't see how to 
> update to a new level.  Is this possible?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Jim
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