Upgrade Fedora 6 to 14 (remotely)

JD jd1008 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 18 16:23:44 UTC 2011


On 04/18/2011 09:22 AM, JD wrote:
> On 04/18/2011 08:56 AM, Andy Blanchard wrote:
>> On 18 April 2011 16:42, Dante Conti <dante.conti at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:dante.conti at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     It was Fedora v6. RHEL was not offered as an OS option.
>>
>>
>> In that case they *really* ought to be named and shamed.  Fedora Core 
>> 6 was released at the tail end of 2006!  That kind of OS age might be 
>> OK in Microsoft shops where you get major releases every several 
>> years then a sequence of Service Packs, but here in Linux-land with 
>> frequent incremental releases that's almost akin to being carved onto 
>> stone tablets.
>>
>> -- 
>> Andy
>>
>> The only person to have all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe
> I had posted to the OP that he indeed CAN upgrade to D14 remotely
> by asking the hosting company to provide him with a second drive.
> Drives are rather cheap today.
> He could install F14 on the 2nd drive, and add a boot selection in
> FC6 's grub.conf to boot off of the second drive.
> But the OP seems not to have taken this road :)
>
Sorry, I meant F14, not D14  (the letters are next to each other :)



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