Redhat to Fedora - up2date/RHN

T. Ribbrock emgaron at gmx.net
Tue Nov 4 08:29:34 UTC 2003


On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 11:52:57PM -0600, Timothy John Giese wrote:
> I'm about to make the switch from rh9 to fedora too.
> I can't tell you what I've done (since I haven't done it), but
> I can tell you what I plan on doing in a "monkey trainable"-way.


I took the liberty of adding a vital step that's missing in your list:

> 1. I will download the iso images and burn them to CDs

1a. I will make a backup of all important personal and configuration
    data.

> 2. I will reboot the computer with CD 1 in the drive.
> 3. I will click "next" at all prompts except for the screen that
> asks me if I want to update my current operating system
> (which it should recognize as RH9) or do a fresh install of
> Fedora.  At that particular prompt, I will select "Upgrade"
> and THEN press "next".
> 4. I will press "next" for all prompts after that point.

Cheerio,

Thomas :-)
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