Update RedHat 9.B --> Fedora

[Thomas Skerhutt]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003, Charles Curley wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 04:02:11PM +0000, Douglas Furlong wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 15:45, Thomas Skerhutt wrote:
> > > Remco schrieb:
> > >
> > > >On Monday 24 November 2003 16:23, Thomas Skerhutt wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >>I've just one question: How can I update from RedHat 9.B to Fedora Core?
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > >You probably ran
> > > ># yum update
> > > >
> > > >which updates individual packages but
> > > >
> > > ># yum upgrade
> > > >will do a full cross-distro version upgrade which is probably what you want.
> > > >
> > > >Remco
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > You're right, first I ran yum update and saw that there was no success.
> > > After that I started yum upgrade, but it didn't find any new packages or
> > > anything to install.
> > >
> > > Thomas
> > I accidentally did a distribution upgrade from Redhat 9, to Fedora Core
> > 1, by editing the /etc/yum.conf file, and changed the release version,
> > to that of Fedora Core 1 (what ever it is), and then did an upgrade (or
> > was it update).
> >
> > Any way, 900 odd packages later, and it was upgraded.
> >
> > However, I believe this method does not catch every thing, if new
> > packages are included in a default install, then they will not be
> > upgraded/installed.
>
> Since yum handles dependencies, a new package upon which a package to
> be upgraded is dependant will be installed. What you will not see is
> installation of packages new in FC1 for which you have no ancestor on
> your computer. You can always do a "yum list" to see what is
> available.
>
>


I've tried different methods to upgrade again, but nothing works. Can
anyone of those who have already done such an update, send me his
/etc/yum.conf and tell me how I have to start an upgrade to Fedora? My
system is a nearly new installed RedHat 9. It's not a problem if some
configuration-files are destroyed. I only want to keep my kernel.

Thanks for help

Thomas