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Old 10-07-2004, 06:37 AM   #1
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Is it possible to update Red Hat 8.0 to Fedora 2 ?

Is it possible to update Red Hat 8.0 to Fedora 2 ?
or is it necessary to reinstall ?
 
Old 10-07-2004, 08:22 AM   #2
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If your /home is a separate partition, I would just re-install (and not format /home)

I don't know if the installer can handle an update from RH8 to FC2. There's been a _lot_ of changes since RH8.
 
Old 10-08-2004, 09:39 AM   #3
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It may be possible, but definetely not recommended.
 
  


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