On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 15:22 -0500, Jim McConnell wrote: > on 2/16/2004 3:02 PM seth vidal said the following: > > > you really don't want to do this. > > Why? The cruft problem below? Will the likelihood of rpm database > corruption increase? I have no illusions about the potential for data > loss here; it is quite high. It's a risk I'm willing to take. Just for > grins, I'm going to make an ISO backup of the system, download it, burn > it, restore it, and see what happens if I DO do this on hardware I don't > care about. > no - it's just that you're talking about 3 MAJOR version revisions and an untold number of package obsoletion cycles. > Again, I'd like to know why? > > Were that an option, I would do that. I do not have physical access to > the machine, and there are no other machines on the same vlan that I > have access to. Yes, it's not the greatest situation. You do odd > things for free bandwidth... ok - so two things: 1. you can install fc1 via vnc now - kinda a neat trick - might be an option for you. 2. if you really want to do this I'd suggest: a. backup everything b. strip down the set of packages installed on the system as low as you can go - you should be able to get it down to as few as 100-200pkgs c. yum upgrade to fc1 d. reboot e. install all the stuff you had on there before -sv
