Fedora Core 2 to Fedora Core 3

[Dan Hollis]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 12:21 -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 01:32:42PM -0500, Ken Allen wrote:
> > > > Is there a way to upgrade from Fedora Core 2 to Fedora Core 3 using the default update program?
> > > This question realy belongs on fedora-list but yes you can ("not recommended")
> > > using yum rather than dropping in a Fedora Core 3 CD.  It isn't how you are
> > > meant to do it.
> > i've live-upgraded from fc2 to fc3 using yum. a little scary but it worked.
> > supported live upgrades is something that would be _really_ cool though.
> It's really tricky with the kernel changes that happen b/t fedora
> releases. even more tricky when you remember all the 3rd party
> binary-only kernel modules that people glom onto their system.

Most userspace stuff is independent of kernel version though... in any 
case FC2->FC3 did work so it would be nice if it were officially tested 
and supported in some way.

-Dan