On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 04:02:11PM +0000, Douglas Furlong wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 15:45, Thomas Skerhutt wrote: > > > Remco schrieb: > > > > > > >On Monday 24 November 2003 16:23, Thomas Skerhutt wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > >>I've just one question: How can I update from RedHat 9.B to Fedora Core? > > > >> > > > >> > > > > > > > >You probably ran > > > ># yum update > > > > > > > >which updates individual packages but > > > > > > > ># yum upgrade > > > >will do a full cross-distro version upgrade which is probably what you want. > > > > > > > >Remco > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > You're right, first I ran yum update and saw that there was no success. > > > After that I started yum upgrade, but it didn't find any new packages or > > > anything to install. > > > > > > Thomas > > I accidentally did a distribution upgrade from Redhat 9, to Fedora Core > > 1, by editing the /etc/yum.conf file, and changed the release version, > > to that of Fedora Core 1 (what ever it is), and then did an upgrade (or > > was it update). > > > > Any way, 900 odd packages later, and it was upgraded. > > > > However, I believe this method does not catch every thing, if new > > packages are included in a default install, then they will not be > > upgraded/installed. > > Since yum handles dependencies, a new package upon which a package to > be upgraded is dependant will be installed. What you will not see is > installation of packages new in FC1 for which you have no ancestor on > your computer. You can always do a "yum list" to see what is > available. > > I've tried different methods to upgrade again, but nothing works. Can anyone of those who have already done such an update, send me his /etc/yum.conf and tell me how I have to start an upgrade to Fedora? My system is a nearly new installed RedHat 9. It's not a problem if some configuration-files are destroyed. I only want to keep my kernel. Thanks for help Thomas
