On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 09:23 -0700, Randall J. Parr wrote: > Eric Rostetter wrote: > > > If you are going to do that, you might as well just update the OS to RH 9 > > via yum/apt. > > > > > > But if you want the newer packages, I'd just upgrade the OS. I did a > > RH 8.0 > > to RH 9 upgrade via apt-get the other day. Was painless, and only > > downtime > > was the reboot to load the new kernel in. > > > > Are there instructions are a how-to for upgrading from RH 8.0 to RH 9.0 > using yum and/or apt-get? > > Any pointers and/or references would be greatly appreciated. > > I have been very leary of taking this course but would love to upgrade > my systems this way. 8.0 to 9 shouldn't be much work. 1. install yum 2. make sure you have 1-2gb free in your yum cachedir 3. point to remote repositories for 9 4. run yum upgrade 5. sit back and see what happens. it all depends on how much third party stuff you have installed. -sv -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
