Updating to FC7 from FC6 via Yum?

[Philip Prindeville]

Philip Prindeville wrote:
> Is it reasonably safe to update a running system via Yum a major version?
>
> And is there a particular way to do it?  Do I need to grab new 
> /etc/yum.d/ files?
>
> Or am I better off burning a DVD, and rebooting off that, and 
> selecting "upgrade"?
>
> Because there are some remote machines that don't have DVD readers, 
> and it would make my life a lot simpler if I didn't have to go and 
> visit them, physically plug in a USB DVD driver, reboot, upgrade, and 
> then reboot again...
>
> -Philip
>

Asked and answered:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq