André Costa wrote:
Well, a network upgrade with yum should work, but what will happen if
I lose connection for some reason?
Don't risk it. You should be able modify the info at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
with:
edit /etc/yum.conf to keepcache=1
{if you have the DVD iso, copy it's rpms into the yum cache
{/var/cache/yum/....}
yum install yum-downloadonly
time yum --downloadonly -y upgrade
Repeat if you have download/network problems.
Once successfully downloaded, remove the --downloadonly:
time yum -y upgrade
I'm interested to know how long the download and the install actually take.
Additionally, you may be able to save a serious amount of time through
divide and conquer eg:
time yum -y update xorg*
Is it possible to use yum to upgrade from the installation DVD?
You would need to do a few special things; create a fedora-media.repo
and point it to the mounted CD. As well as have the network available
for updates the aren't on the DVD but instead in Fedora Everything.
DaveT.
