Brad Cox wrote: > I'm upgrading from RH8.0 to Fedora via the CD "update" (not clean > install) option. Seems the second CD is marginal (cheap distro) because > several files weren't found until I retried them. Eventually failed > altogether toward the end of the 2nd CD. I removed the CD and rebooted > and it came up in Fedora just fine, missing only httpd. > > However it apparently didn't update yum.conf since /etc/yum.conf still > points to RH8.0 repos. I'm inclined to avoid the flakey CD altogether > and complete the upgrade with yum upgrade. Am I right that this is the > right thing to do? If so I'll need to manually change yum.conf before > trying this, right? Where can I get a fedora yum.conf? PS: There's an > /etc/yum.conf.rpmnew but that's for 8.0 too. get the rpm from fedora.redhat.com, then run rpm2cpio yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm | cpio -i -d ./etc/yum.conf Or just rpm -Uvh it. Before you do that however, make sure that you have rpm 4.2 installed. There's a -c option for yum that will let you use a yum.conf file in a different location.
