On January 15, 2004 02:34 pm, Phil Schaffner wrote: > On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 19:57, Fred Nastos wrote: > > > > 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? > > No. The xyz-release-m-n.rpm would be required for any RH-derived > upgrade, but is primarily there to satisfy requires and provide release > notes and first boot stuff. Upgrade philosophies using various tools > and repository types have been discussed in several recent threads (apt > vs yum vs up2date...) so won't go into that here, but why not just do a > CD or network upgrade using Anaconda - the "official" approach? Chances > of success are considerably higher, and potential time investment much > lower. Well, I just figured why bother burning some cds, if I can just do it directly, on the fly. It seemed more elegant. See below for what I ended up doing. > (OT: Have tried some of these approaches on a VMware testbed in an > attempt to upgrade a RH-7.3 system to WBEL 3 - since Anaconda refuses > to do it - without success. Haven't found a good HOWTO for this with > Google, nor on either this list or the WBEL lists. Still looking. > Probably time for a nice clean install and house-cleaning anyway, but > all the old settings take a lot of time to recreate.) > > Good luck whatever road you take. Would be interested in what you > decide to do since many RH users are facing same dilemma. Well, I tried the above procedure (right at the top of this email), and it failed with a lot of dependency problems. So I did some googling and tried the method presented at: http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading_Red_Hat_Linux_with_yum.html I ran into a few dependency problems with this also when I tried to "yum upgrade" to redhat 9. As suggested on the page, I tried to "rpm --erase" every package that was causing problems (figured I'd just reinstall them later). But there was one dependency problem that I couldn't get around (something about kdegraphics and a lib file). "rpm -erase kdegraphics" gave me a "kdegraphics is not installed" error. I didn't know how to get around this (I didn't want to "rpm --force" anything), so I just burned some Fedora CDs. The story's not done yet. I put the CDs in, rebooted, and it recognized that I had an old redhat installed. I happily agreed to upgrade, but this also failed! If I remember correctly it was the same kdegraphics dependency. I had backed up all my critical data and it was getting late, so I bit the bullet, and just did a fresh install, but kept my /home and /data partitions unformatted. This ran succesfully. To my delight, after I set my user account details correctly when I logged into my account with kde selected, I had the exact same desktop as before. That was my installation-highlight. I spent the past day reinstalling all the software and compilers, making sure all the configuration files are right, transferring ssh keys, etc. and now everything is running just fine. Thanks
