On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 03:27:37 +0200, Dirk J. Botha wrote: > Hi there, > > Probably a noob question, but then again, I've only been using Linux for about > 6 months. > > Lucky for me I have the advantage of being a C++ developer so I'm not a total > idiot. The unlucky part is that I'm rather out of it as far as updateing my > system is concerned. I've noticed that the RedHat up2date utility does not > work for me, it keeps telling me that it's unable to register me. Regardless > of what username I use. Have you had an updated "up2date" version installed already? https://rhn.redhat.com/help/latest-up2date.pxt I still see users who install Red Hat Linux 9 from scratch and then cannot access RHN because the version of up2date is out-of-date and they would need to update it first. Btw, Red Hat Linux 9 has reached end-of-life, so you're better off taking a look at getting updates from the Fedora Legacy project with an update utilities like Yum. > Is it perhaps possible to update my system to Fedora, i.e. use a similar > utility as "up2date" to look at the Fedora sources and RPMs to update my > system? The purpose being to end up with a Fedora Core 2 system that I can > use in order to aid the development and testing. > > I'd appretiate any assistance. Online upgrading with Yum or AptRpm is possible (search the archives or the web), but may result in trouble. The Fedora Core installer does a few things you would be missing when upgrading with yum/apt-get.
