Re: Can Upgrade FC2 -> FC3 While Live?

From: Joel Jaeggli (joelja_at_darkwing.uoregon.edu)
Date: 11/10/04

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To: Fred Whipple <fwhipple@gmail.com>, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Fred Whipple wrote:

    > Hi,
    >
    > I'm wondering if it's possible to just upgrade directly from FC2 to
    > FC3 with, for example, up2date rather than booting from special
    > installation media. Obviously I'm not saying while a server is
    > completely open and live, but while the machine is still booted such
    > that the only reboot is to boot into the new OS.
    >
    > For the multi-distribution savvy, what I'm asking is if you can
    > upgrade the OS the same way you can with Debian :-)

    or like freebsd...

    It was done by a few people (myself included although only for one
    machine) from fc1 to fc2, there is a fair amount of magic stuff that gets
    done by anaconda when you upgrades between version of fc or redhat, so
    there's considerable peril involved in doing it, if you want to do it, I'd
    recomdn trying on a machine you don't need or a clone of the one that you
    really to upgrade.

    seth's notes on fc1 to fc2 are here:

    http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/misc/fc1-fc2-yum-hints.txt

    I generally do trial runs before I roll out a major change because some
    of the machines I control are in colo on different continents than the one
    I reside, in so screwing it up can be an expensive mistake.

    > TIA,
    >
    > -Fred
    >
    > 

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