Fedora Core 2 to Fedora Core 3

Wed Feb 9 21:17:21 UTC 2005

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 12:21 -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 01:32:42PM -0500, Ken Allen wrote:
> > > Is there a way to upgrade from Fedora Core 2 to Fedora Core 3 using the default update program?
> > This question realy belongs on fedora-list but yes you can ("not recommended")
> > using yum rather than dropping in a Fedora Core 3 CD.  It isn't how you are
> > meant to do it.
> 
> i've live-upgraded from fc2 to fc3 using yum. a little scary but it worked.
> 
> supported live upgrades is something that would be _really_ cool though.

It's really tricky with the kernel changes that happen b/t fedora
releases. even more tricky when you remember all the 3rd party
binary-only kernel modules that people glom onto their system.

-sv