Re: Redhat 8 to 9

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 09:23 -0700, Randall J. Parr wrote:
> Eric Rostetter wrote:
> 
> > If you are going to do that, you might as well just update the OS to RH 9
> > via yum/apt.
> >
> >
> > But if you want the newer packages, I'd just upgrade the OS.  I did a 
> > RH 8.0
> > to RH 9 upgrade via apt-get the other day.  Was painless, and only 
> > downtime
> > was the reboot to load the new kernel in.
> >
> 
> Are there instructions are a how-to for upgrading from RH 8.0 to RH 9.0 
> using yum and/or apt-get?
> 
> Any pointers and/or references would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I have been very leary of taking this course but would love to upgrade 
> my systems this way.

8.0 to 9 shouldn't be much work.
1. install yum
2. make sure you have 1-2gb free in your yum cachedir
3. point to remote repositories for 9
4. run yum upgrade
5. sit back and see what happens.

it all depends on how much third party stuff you have installed.

-sv