From RH 9.1 to Fedora

[Rodrigo Martin Santos]

Hello, my name is Rodrigo. I have installed RH 9.1 last June and since 
then kept it updated through RH Network Alert. Now the desktop 
distribution from RH is ended and the natural way to go on seems to be 
with Fedora Project. How can I do to move to Fedora without uninstalling 
RH? I have configured and personalized the PC through all these months 
and I do not want to lose all this work. I have read the site in RH and 
Fedora but I can't find a smoth path to change it.

Yours,

Rodrigo

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

http://www.fedoralegacy.org/

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike(a)swm.pp.se

[Mariano Draghi]

El Sat, 01 May 2004 10:20:04 -0300, Rodrigo Martin Santos escribió:

>  Hello, my name is Rodrigo. I have installed RH 9.1 last June and
> since 
>  then kept it updated through RH Network Alert. Now the desktop 
>  distribution from RH is ended and the natural way to go on seems to be 
>  with Fedora Project. How can I do to move to Fedora without uninstalling 
>  RH? I have configured and personalized the PC through all these months 
>  and I do not want to lose all this work. I have read the site in RH and 
>  Fedora but I can't find a smoth path to change it. 
Hi Rodrigo,

All this depends on how critical is your current RH9 installation for
you... if you want to keep things stable, and just keep the system up to
date as regards security and bugfixes, then the Fedora Legacy Project is
the way to go.

But if you want to upgrade your system to Fedora Core 1, just do that.
Anaconda will find your previous RH9 installation and ask you to upgrade
it, keeping all your settings. I took that approach when I migrated from
RH8, and it worked 'almost' perfect. There could be some (minor) oddities,
but if you are a more-or-less experienced Linux user, you won't have any
problem solving them.

Please, note that in a couple of weeks Fedora Core 2 will be out... so you
might consider as well to stay with RH9 a little bit more, keeping an eye
on FC2... if everything goes fine, then you could upgrade later directly
to FC2.

-- 
Mariano

[Ted Gervais]

Download the 3 iso files (yarrow 1, 2 3) and select upgrade when you go
to install it.  That will convert/change your RH9 to Fedora just great..

Good luck..





On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 10:20, Rodrigo Martin Santos wrote:
>  Hello, my name is Rodrigo. I have installed RH 9.1 last June and
> since 
>  then kept it updated through RH Network Alert. Now the desktop 
>  distribution from RH is ended and the natural way to go on seems to be 
>  with Fedora Project. How can I do to move to Fedora without uninstalling 
>  RH? I have configured and personalized the PC through all these months 
>  and I do not want to lose all this work. I have read the site in RH and 
>  Fedora but I can't find a smoth path to change it.
>  
>  Yours,
>  
>  Rodrigo 
-- 
Ted Gervais
Coldbrook, Nova Scotia
Canada.

[John Aldrich]

On Saturday 01 May 2004 03:08 pm, Mariano Draghi wrote:
>  All this depends on how critical is your current RH9 installation
> for
>  you... if you want to keep things stable, and just keep the system up to
>  date as regards security and bugfixes, then the Fedora Legacy Project is
>  the way to go.
>
>  But if you want to upgrade your system to Fedora Core 1, just do that.
>  Anaconda will find your previous RH9 installation and ask you to upgrade
>  it, keeping all your settings. I took that approach when I migrated from
>  RH8, and it worked 'almost' perfect. There could be some (minor) oddities,
>  but if you are a more-or-less experienced Linux user, you won't have any
>  problem solving them.
>
>  Please, note that in a couple of weeks Fedora Core 2 will be out... so you
>  might consider as well to stay with RH9 a little bit more, keeping an eye
>  on FC2... if everything goes fine, then you could upgrade later directly
>  to FC2.
>  
I have a related question -- how does one use "up2date" to upgrade from
RH9 to 
FC? I understand you can do that, but what options does one use in up2date, 
etc? I think there's a config change required.... 
	Thanks.