On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 13:28, David L Norris wrote: > On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 09:22, Rory Gleeson wrote: > > Any thoughts on the value of actually downloading the ISO's and > > installing or updating with them vs. just letting up2date and yum take > > you over to Fedora Core 2 final? > > Short answer: you should not try to upgrade from FC1 to FC2 using > YUM/APT. Anaconda needs to do the upgrade for you. You may be able to > do an upgrade using the boot.iso CD image. > Why not? Hell this system started as FC1 and I updated it to test2 fine and now I'm using latest rawhide... what's wrong with Yummin' it up? Any specific problems you can think of? > > The Fedora Core 2 installation, at the very least, needs to be run under > kernel 2.6. Maybe you could use YUM/APT to upgrade but the system may > not work afterward. > This is true. The first thing I did was install 2.6.0-test9 back a few months ago (at 1.6.5-1.358 now), and then upgrade the other packages in increments, seems to work fine. I haven't had any issues with this approach, my system is running better than before... aside from new bugs in kernel 2.6.5-1.x... > Some discussion on the topic: > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-April/msg01102.html The e-mail seems to insinuate its technically impossible? I can attest to quite the contrary... -sb
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