Upgrading from FC1 to FC2

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mo, den 08.11.2004 schrieb Drew, Bill um 17:16:

Please don't top-post. Make quotation visible as is.

[ reordered due to top-posting ]

> > Upgrade in non X mode (runlevel 3). Seth Vidal did write down some notes
> > for upgrading using yum
> > 
> > http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/misc/fc1-fc2-yum-hints.txt


> I don't entirely understand this.  Do you mean run it from the text
> command line?  What is runlevel 3?
> 
> Bill Drew

Yes, you should upgrade without X (the GUI) running. Just in plain console mode,
which is runelevel 3. From /etc/inittab:

# Default runlevel. The runlevels used by RHS are:
#   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#   1 - Single user mode
#   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking)
#   3 - Full multiuser mode
#   4 - unused
#   5 - X11
#   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)

yum for example is a command line tool. Doing the online upgrade in X mode you risk that
your system will not instantly after the upgrade because of bigger changes.

Alexander


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