On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 01:57, Fred Nastos wrote: > On January 14, 2004 02:42 pm, Michael Thompson wrote: > > Hi Fedora-list, > > > > I am currently using Redhat 9, and when April 30th comes round, I am > > looking to change distos. > > > > What I am asking therefore is: Can I upgrade RH9 to Fedora, and it > > keeps all the settings? Mainly the Mailserver, FTP, web server etc? > > Related to this, I heard from someone on the local (toronto) linux users > mailing list that one can upgrade from an earlier redhat (i.e. 7.0 to 9) > to fedora by the following procedure: > > First, run up2date on redhat 7, 8, or 9 to make it up2date. > Then get fedora-release-1-3.rpm from ftp.redhat.com. > Then run > rpm -Uvh fedora-release-1-3.rpm > yum -y update > > and this will upgrade your system (slowly, of course). How does > this work? Does fedora-release-1-3.rpm contain yum? I don't have > yum, so would I have to doenload it seperately. > > Thanks > I used apt-get to upgrade my entire box from rh9 to fc1, installed apt, configured it to point at the fc1 repository and ran apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. Took time of course, when downloading 810MB, but hey, it works, nothing went wrong... Sturla
