seth... i have a number of machines that i can't get to in order to stand in front with the CDs.. so i need a way to update/upgrade remotely... from reviewing information from various sites.. it appeared that yum/apt-get were apps that would allow this to occur. if you (or anyone else) can suggest another approach that will allow us to solve this issue, we'd seriously appreciate it!! we're just trying to get a way to upgrade from one OS to another, and to do it remotely, ie i'm here.. and the servers are someplace else. thanks bruce -----Original Message----- From: seth vidal [mailto:skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 9:09 AM To: Yellowdog Updater, Modified; bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [Yum] installing/upgrading an os over itself On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 08:47 -0800, bruce wrote: > hi... > > is there a way to use yum to reinstall an OS on top of itself... i started > to upgrade to FC2. i ran out of harddrive space, and had to remove some > files/make space... i tried to do a 'yum -upgrade' again... and yum came > back and said no new files, or that it didn't have aything new to > update/upgrade... > > it appears that something was changed, enough so that yum thought FC2 > already exists on the system. trust me.. FC2 is not completely on this > system!! > > so how can i get the system/yum to a point where i can try to continue to > upgrade/install FC2... > bruce, You've been talking about this set of problems for the last couple of days. In that time you could have reinstalled via the normal fedora installer and reconfigured the whole system. Is there some reason you are hell bound for leather to do this via yum? -sv
