[ATrpms-users] Re: FC3 to FC4 upgrade

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tuesday 14 June 2005 09:34, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 12:19:35PM -0400, Preet Khalsa wrote:
> > I need advice.
> >
> > In other upgrades, I backed up and did a clean install from CD.  This
> > time around there is no major kernel upgrade or other system level
> > things to worry about.
> >
> > Does the upgrader on CD work or is it broken like in the past?
> >
> > Do I just switch repos and let yum do the work?  I have to use yum
> > because this is a x86_64 box.
>
> Yes, upgrading with yum/smart is rather safe this time. yum may bail
> out due to too many packages in its memory, but that will not harm
> your system (it will just not update it).
>
> FWIW I would always upgrade kernel, reboot, upgrade glibc and then do
> the full thing.
>
> BTW the FC4 systems I have are all from scratch, so the above is just
> academic. ;)

My workstation at work started its current life as a Fedora Core 3 box, and 
while there were a few bumps along the way, its now upgraded to a full Fedora 
Core 4 box, so it can certainly be done. I used apt for everything though, 
never touched yum or CDs.

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com
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