[TriLUG] Red Hat Linux 9 upgrade paths?
John Turner
jdturner at nc.rr.com
Thu Jul 8 10:32:06 EDT 2004
So what about all the added software I installed via RPMs, source, etc?
If I have to go through all of that I might as well look at using SUSE.
John
On Jul 8, 2004, at 10:19 AM, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 10:17, John Turner wrote:
>> If I have a Red Hat Linux 9 box what are my options in moving to a
>> supported
>> version of Red Hat (like RHEL AS v3)?
>
> The only supported way to "upgrade" is to back up your data, format,
> install RHEL 3, and restore the data.
>
>> I have seen some how-tos on moving to Fedora using Yum anyone else
>> have
>> a better method?
>
> It *might* be possible to upgrade to RHEL 3 via apt or yum, but there
> will likely be lurking demons you'd have to correct manually.
>
> --Jeremy
>
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