This particular one is from FC1 to FC2. I do have have a lot of Linux experience. The particular hope here was to upgrade my server with the absolute minimum of downtime (preferably only a reboot). That was the one that I eventually used the install cds to finish the job.On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 17:07 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
Is it possible to upgrade between full versions using apt? For example from FC1 to FC2. It upgraded most packages, although I had to do a lot of them in small chunks. But now it's at a stage where it wants to delete a lot of necessary packages, including both installed kernels. I've tried this on several computers and on the one I really needed to be fully operational, I gave up and used the cd's to do a proper upgrade which worked just fine. What does the installer do that just upgrading the packages using apt can not do?
I've used apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade from RH9 to FC1, to FC2 and now to FC3 test. In each case (especially RH9 to FC1) I've had to work on stuff myself to get the system fully up and ready. Unless you have quite a bit of experience (or are a fast user) I'd recommend using the CDs. At the mininimum, you'll probably need to 'apt-get install' individual packages that for one reason or another apt decided it needed to remove (though for FC1->FC2 there should not be many of these).
I now went and manually apt-get installed the packages that needed upgrading bit by bit. Now, it is fully upgraded and doesn't try to remove anything. It appears that it was a couple of packages that apt didn't want to automatically upgrade. Once those were done, apt was happy. Too bad I didn't try those ones first. :-/
Thanks for the encouragement. :-)
