[PlanetCCRMA] FC2 to FC3 upgrade - possible?

Steve Harris S.W.Harris@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Jul 7 14:50:02 2005


On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:55:48 -0700, Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> >    How is an upgrade like this done, presuming it can be done.  Can I
> > change sources.list from fedora/2/ to fedora/3/ and then just do an
> > update/dist-upgrade? Sounds dangerous to me.
> 
> It is :-) It is possible to do it but I have not tried. You may want to
> google for successfull experiences from others. I would try a phased
> approach, meaning don't upgrade everythin at once. But I don't know how
> I would go about it till I try. 

I've done it and the machine survived, but it took a bit of work to get
everything working. Mostly a bit of apt-get -f install ing.

- Steve