yum first-time user question

[Stelian Iancu]

tom poe wrote:
> It has been an interesting 24 hours.  Managed to get what appears to be
> a RH8 apt-get dist-upgrade to take.  Now, also have a yum version for
> rh8 installed, and a /etc/yum.conf file to look at.  I want to use yum
> to move rh8 up to rh9.  Can you point me to the documentation to set yum
> up to do that?  Any pointers appreciated.  My goal is to keep upgrading
> until I get to FC4.  Is this doable, without the ability to burn CDs?
> Tom

Yes, by doing a fresh install from the network :-). Seriously now, there
are some issues about upgrading from one version to another using yum.
See the list archives. The recommended to install FC4 is backup - fresh
install - get the data back from the backup.

S.