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Upgrading RH9 to Fedora?

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JustMike

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Can I do this upgrade with the Fedora installer? Anybody done it? Any complaints?

I am willing to live with the initial problems with Fedora (in fact, I probably won't upgrade until the next release), however I want to ensure it's possible without having to completely reinstall.
 
I don't know.

How much is fedora like Redhat?

I upgraded from Redhat 8.0 to Redhat 9.0 using apt-get from freshrpms.net

All I had to do was (after installing apt4rpm) was change the /etc/apt/source.list from 8.0 stuff to 9.0 stuff and did a update and dist-upgrade. Worked fine, no issues, although others have had issues doing this. Maybe that will work for fedora, too.
 
You can definitely upgrade via the CD. Some people have upgraded via apt/yum, but that seems to have some issues that don't always work out.
 
I went from Redhat 7.0, to Redhat 9.0.

You can use the rpms off the CD to install.
However if you are going to install from RPMs I would gather the list of current RPMs on your machine.
rpm -qa > current_rpm.txt

That way you know what needs to be upgraded and what doesn't.
Because the install disks have alot of rpms on them.

I wouldn't force any installations. There will be alot of dependency
issues, but every should be able to gathered from the CDs.
You might also want to look at what from 9.0 was left out of Fedora.
I know Fedora left some RPMs Redhat 9.0 used, out of Fedora.

This would not be using the Ananconda installer.
I haven't tried to use Fedora Anaconda to install. Not sure if it would want to completely reinstall, or if it would just try to install over Redhat 9.0
 
Update: the move from RH 8.x to RH9 was painless on one of my machines, but the upgrade from RH9 to Fedora was not. It worked and I was able to rescue the installation, but for some reason yum decided that it wanted to have two versions of various packages installed. I went through and removed the duplicates and it seems to be fine.

'yum upgrade' was what I used after installing yum from Fedora's website. Not quite sure I'd want to do this on a production machine, though.
 
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