Upgrade FC2T1 to FC2T3 with YUM ?

moonshine · 05-08-2004, 08:25 PM

Howdy..

I have a (basically) stock Fedora Core 2 Test 1 machine that I'd like to upate to Test 3 level. Is it literally as easy as updating yum.conf to point to a Test 3 distro and then running "yum update"?

I've run "yum check-update" and saw the hundreds of packages I would have expected, but I would like to hear from anyone with experience on this first.

Would I be safer downloading the test 3 distro and updating off CD, or is the YUM approach fine given a decent connection?

Thanks!

sgbeamer · 05-10-2004, 04:15 PM

This should work. I have not tried it with the test core 2 but this is pretty much what I did to get from RH 9 to FC 1. I installed yum, pointed to FC1 server and updated. It worked great including keeping my old desktop intact. Launchers to applications that got updated ended up in a new desktop folder called "Old Desktop" or something like that.

I did a clean install of FC2 Test 1 on a spare hard disk but I could not get it to connect to the internet (it could ping itself but could not get to the hub or the internet).

thanquol · 05-11-2004, 04:32 AM

Hi!

I did this from FC2-test2, and it worked out well, I think it was something around 500 rpms (maybe more).