Paul Johnson wrote: > I've done yum upgrades on 3 different systems. All ended up fine. > > 1. Go to RPMS for FC5 and look for the rpm fedora-release. Install > that manually. > > 2. Run > > yum update yum > > to make sure you have the newest yum. > > 3. Run > > yum update > > That will take about 30 minutes to download a list of all packages and > their interdependency information, then it will ask you if it is OK to > proceed. If have seen it > go faster if run during the middle of the night on a 100baseT > ethernet, while a "cable modem" system took longer than 30 minutes. I agree with your advice about how to do it, but I think your estimate of how long it will take is rather optimistic. It took me 13 hours to upgrade from FC-4 to FC-5 on a Sony Picturebook (C1VFK) with 192MB RAM (the maximum possible). What is a little off-putting with such a large update is that yum goes silent for long periods (an hour or more in my case) and it is not entirely clear if things are still going OK. Actually, I got one dependency conflict after 2 hours or so - I don't recall what it was - and I had to add an exclude clause to /etc/yum.conf and start again. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
