Upgrade

Sturla Holm Hansen sturlahh at online.no
Thu Jan 15 23:44:22 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 01:57, Fred Nastos wrote:
> On January 14, 2004 02:42 pm, Michael Thompson wrote:
> > Hi Fedora-list,
> >
> >   I am currently using Redhat 9, and when April 30th comes round, I am
> >   looking to change distos.
> >
> >   What I am asking therefore is: Can I upgrade RH9 to Fedora, and it
> >   keeps all the settings? Mainly the Mailserver, FTP, web server etc?
> 
> Related to this, I heard from someone on the local (toronto) linux users
> mailing list that one can upgrade from an earlier redhat (i.e. 7.0 to 9)
> to fedora by the following procedure:
> 
> First, run up2date on redhat 7, 8, or 9 to make it up2date.
> Then get fedora-release-1-3.rpm from ftp.redhat.com.
> Then run
> rpm -Uvh fedora-release-1-3.rpm
> yum -y update
> 
> and this will upgrade your system (slowly, of course).  How does
> this work?  Does fedora-release-1-3.rpm contain yum?  I don't have
> yum, so would I have to doenload it seperately.
> 
> Thanks
> 

I used apt-get to upgrade my entire box from rh9 to fc1, installed apt,
configured it to point at the fc1 repository and ran apt-get update and
apt-get dist-upgrade.
Took time of course, when downloading 810MB, but hey, it works, nothing
went wrong...

Sturla





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