On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 12:18, Ben Russo wrote: > rayzor@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Are there any issues upgrading RH9 to Fedora? Will it retain current system > > configurations and leave everything intact? Yes.. and No. > > This all depends on exactly what mix of RPM's you have installed, and > what customizations you have made to your system. True.. For mine, I think gdm was screwed. So, in effect, I was too.. :-) > > If you only have RPM's installed that came from the RedHat 9 Channel, > then you will probably be just fine to do an apt or yum based upgrade. > There might be some configuration file issues that you will have to > manually resolve. If you haven't made major changes to your system you > should be fine and everything should work with only a handful of minor > tweaks. > > If I were you I would go to the AT-RPMs site and get their RedHat 9 > kickstart package. Install it, make sure your RH9 system has no broken > dependencies and get it completely up2date. (run "apt-get update; > apt-get upgrade; apt-get dist-upgrade") > > http://atrpms.net/ > http://atrpms.net/install.html > http://atrpms.net/name/atrpms-kickstart/ > > Then, after you do that... go back to the AT-RPMS site and get their > kickstart package for Fedora Core 1, upgrade your APT install and > apt-sources. Then run "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade; apt-get > dist-upgrade" > > Then go back and do the same think to get you to FC2.... > > I haven't done this before, but I think it will work. --
