Updating Morphos without burning ISO cd
  • Cocoon
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    Fairdinkem
    Posts: 42 from 2010/8/20
    From: Victoria, Aust...
    Hi everyone,

    I have a Pegasos 2 and I would like to hope it is possible to update to the latest MorphOS without burning the ISO to a CD which is annoying and wasteful considering the frequency of late with the updates.

    Would someone be so kind to give me a step by step guide which is idiot proof to help me?

    Also would it be okay to go from MorphOS 3.4 to the latest 3.7?

    Thanks in advance.
  • »11.08.14 - 09:32
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    Senex
    Posts: 498 from 2003/2/17
    From: Hannover / Ger...
    Thomas Rapp described updating without burning a CD here.

    Updating from 3.4 to 3.7 directly is no problem.
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    geit
    Posts: 1031 from 2004/9/23
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    I have a Pegasos 2 and I would like to hope it is possible to update to the latest MorphOS without burning the ISO to a CD which is annoying and wasteful considering the frequency of late with the updates.


    Just use a CDRW and nothing is wasted. Once you have a non booting system for no reason you are thankful to have a recent recovery disc.

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    Also would it be okay to go from MorphOS 3.4 to the latest 3.7?


    Since MorphOS ISO contains the entire OS, you can update all installed systems starting with 2.0 by any successor.

    Geit
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  • Cocoon
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    Fairdinkem
    Posts: 42 from 2010/8/20
    From: Victoria, Aust...
    Well I found a blank disc and did the update wish we had the option of a downloadable intaller system to update with but I do understand the benifits of ISO also.
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    jacadcaps
    Posts: 2971 from 2003/3/5
    From: Canada
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    Senex wrote:
    Thomas Rapp described updating without burning a CD here.

    Updating from 3.4 to 3.7 directly is no problem.


    This procedure is very wrong and will not work with 3.8. Please always use the officially supported update methods.
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    Cool_amigaN
    Posts: 745 from 2011/11/30
    @jacadcaps

    It didn't even worked correctly with the current version.

    I know it cause after renaming the old boot.img and copied manually the newer, I got a non working system :/

    Later I had to manually boot the correct img from cd via OF in order to get my system back at its feet.
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    jacadcaps
    Posts: 2971 from 2003/3/5
    From: Canada
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    Cool_amigaN wrote:
    Later I had to manually boot the correct img from cd via OF in order to get my system back at its feet.


    This is exactly why we always ask our users always to follow the official update route, be it via USB or a CD.
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    Cool_amigaN
    Posts: 745 from 2011/11/30
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    Well, I had to try for one more time before ultimately giving up that useful install hack by Tomas, once and for all :P
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    zohaa
    Posts: 1 from 2014/10/16
    Since I have to do a reinstall of 3.7 to see if Chrysalis makes my G5 unstable, I figured I'd make use of my G5 with Debian and MorphOS.

    Anyone have notes on this?
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