Unable to use instructions to using yum 2.x on RH 9

[Ronald Bradford]

I use CentOS 4.2, however the machine is a dedicated host located in a 
data centre in Texas, so I'm limited to Operating systems provided as I 
have no physical access.
They do provide RHEL (which is great) a moderate cost for upgrade, 
however it's a clean wipe, and with 30+ web sites, the downtime is 
likely to be 2-3 days.

I was looking for a cheap out without the dedicated down time, and 
complete re-install of custom software, which I can do, it just takes time.

regards

Ronald

Jeff Sheltren wrote:

> On Jan 19, 2006, at 7:39 AM, Ronald Bradford wrote:
>
>> My apologies, I thought my system was RedHat 9.  it was kernel  
>> 2.4.20-18.7    I did a google on 2.4.20 and it came back with  
>> references to 9.
>>
>> Seems my assumptions when I got the server years ago was wrong, and  
>> it is indeed  7.3
>> I've been able to update everything to current packages under 7.3  
>> however in more reading I see this still doesn't cut it.
>>
>> Could anybody provide any good references for upgrading 7.3 to 9,  
>> which appears what I have to do, however a number of sites I've  
>> reviewed provide some misleading info.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Ronald Bradford
>>
>
> Hi Ronald, you may want to do something like a 'yum upgrade' (after  
> adding the rh9 repos to your yum.conf file) and see what happens but  
> going from 7.3 -> 9 may be a bit of a headache.  I'm a bit curious  
> why you would want to upgrade from one old, unsupported by RedHat  
> distribution to another?  If this is a desktop machine, I'd recommend  
> looking into Fedora Core 4, or FC5 soon, and if it's a server, why  
> not go with RedHat Enterprise 4 or a free alternative?
>
> -Jeff
>
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