On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 14:18 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 14:49 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote: > > > Is it reasonable to go from FC2 to RHEL 4? > > > > Probably not. It's definitely not supported, and I don't think that the > > RHEL installer will even recognize FC2 as an installed OS (i.e. it won't > > say "hey I found FC2, would you like to upgrade it?"). > ---- > type 'linux upgradeany' at the boot prompt and ananconda should locate > previous Fedora installation and attempt to upgrade it. Some packages > might be renamed and thus not recognized. I was responding to the OP's question - "is it reasonable." In my experience, no. An unsupported, questionably functioning installation of RHEL is not reasonable. > > > > > Is it reasonable to expect being able to upgrade as opposed to > > > backup/install clean/reload? > > > > I wouldn't think so. > ---- > it is definitely not a supported method but for the skilled admin, you > can probably make it work pretty well. I wouldn't bet anything in production on it. > I wouldn't personally recommend it. What he said. Thomas
