On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 13:47, Jess Anderson wrote: > Matthew Rex: > > >Has anyone got any comments on how to upgrade a RedHat 7.3 > >machine to Fedora? > > >I figure using yum might be troublesome. Would doing a CD > >upgrade be safer? > > >Should I go straight to FC3 or go step by step: RH73 -> RH9 -> > >FC1 -> FC2 ->FC3 > > >Any thoughts or experience would be great. > > Based on my experience of upgrading from RH7.2 to FC3 in one > jump, I *strongly* suggest you back up all important files > to removable storage or another machine and do a fresh install > of FC3. It's almost certainly a lot less work than the process > you propose. > OK Brian and Jess,you've convinced me! I managed to shuffle data around so I had a physical disk to start afresh. The old partitions were still available so I could copy the required config files. Looks OK so far. iptables and pppoe and ddclient working as expected. The yum "--enablerepo" switch is the best thing... Now to post some queries on xcdroast and k3b... Thanks, Matt. > -- > [] Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never > [] go any higher than what you think. > [] -- Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881 > -- > * Copyright 2005 Jess Anderson > * www.jessanderson.org * anderson@xxxxxxxx > * Window Maker Themes: www.jessanderson.org/wmthemes
