Hi, Mike: I'm on a VA pension. I have to wait until CD burners are
available through university surplus stores in the $5 dollar range. :)
OK, so, can I use yum to upgrade from RH8 to RH9? Do you know where I
look to find the URLs to put in the yum.conf file that would do that?
Thanks, Tom
On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 10:26, Mike McCarty wrote:
> tom poe wrote:
>
> >It has been an interesting 24 hours. Managed to get what appears to be
> >a RH8 apt-get dist-upgrade to take. Now, also have a yum version for
> >rh8 installed, and a /etc/yum.conf file to look at. I want to use yum
> >to move rh8 up to rh9. Can you point me to the documentation to set yum
> >up to do that? Any pointers appreciated. My goal is to keep upgrading
> >until I get to FC4. Is this doable, without the ability to burn CDs?
> >Tom
> >
> >
> I'll bet it has. You have certainly set yourself a challenging goal.
> Perhaps I shouldn't use the word "goal". Umm, project.
> (I hear that the word "goal" implies that one has a plan to achieve
> one's desire, which has a reasonable chance of success.)
>
> Why do you need to do that without the ability to burn CDs? IIRC, the
> last time I bought a CD burner, it was about $40 USD. Even if you pay
> yourself only $5 USD per hour, you'll burn that in one day.
>
> Of course, download time is pretty gruesome. I got those 4 ISOs using
> ADSL, and it took me two full 24 hour days to get all of them.
>
> Mike
>
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