Fedora Install/Upgrade from RedHat 8.0

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Patrick Wambach a écrit :

> I am a Windows Admin looking to learn more about linux so any help 
> would be appreciated.
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> I have an older laptop that I setup a couple of years ago with Redhat 
> 8.0 with kernel 2.4.18.  The problem that I have is that it does not 
> have an internal CDROM drive or floppy or BIOS that supports USB 
> booting.  I have downloaded the FEDORA 5 Test 2 DVD and was wondering 
> if there is a way to run the install/upgrade on an existing red hat 
> install to upgrade to the latest Fedora.  In Windows you can kick off 
> the installer ontop of the existing Windows install.  Is there an 
> equiviant option for Fedora??
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I updated from RedHat 7.3 to Fedora Core 3 through internet using 
apt-get tools. Here you will find an exemple 
http://fedoranews.org/ghenry/apt-fc2/

It should be also possible to do it with up2date. And once you will have 
yum to your disposal, you can use it too.

-- 
Daniel