anyway to upgrade Red Hat 9?

sichen · 08-19-2005, 09:18 PM

I have a red hat 9 server that I need to upgrade because many new programs don't install on it any more. Is there anyway to upgrade Red Hat 9 to Fedora Core 1 then progressively to Fedora Core 4, or to convert it to White Box or CentOs and then upgrade through those?

I've found these links on the web that claim that it's easy to upgrade Red Hat 9, but has anybody tried this in real life?

http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upg..._with_yum.html
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/RedhatToFedora

Thanks!

titanium_geek · 08-19-2005, 10:42 PM

sorry, no personal experience, but here is a great guide from the wiki:
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/RedhatToFedora
so someone has done it before

titanium_geek

whansard · 08-19-2005, 11:52 PM

usually when you upgrade most of your stuff will still work, but some things will not, and you'll have to reset them up. sometimes everything gets messed up. I would make a full backup on an extra machine, run the upgrade and see if it does a good enough job for what you need.

sichen · 08-20-2005, 08:33 AM

If I upgrade from redhat 9 to Fedora Core 1, would I then be able to upgrade it progressively to Fedora Core 4? Or is that just very risky to do?

whansard · 08-20-2005, 09:36 AM

go from redhat 9 to fedora 4. don't do the in between ones.

sajjadc · 08-20-2005, 11:28 PM

hey
install new one is better

a40 · 10-17-2005, 01:26 PM

I recently upgraded from RH9 to Fedora 4 and ran into a problem which caused me to save what I could and install from stratch. I'm doing the same with a second RH9 system now. I upgraded to Fedora 4 and now I have no interenet connection. Funny part is I can do an ifconfig and see that my network card has been assigned an IP address, but yet I can't send anything out. My suggestion, save the important stuff and install from scratch.