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List:       fedora-list
Subject:    Re: yum first-time user question
From:       "ne..." <guhvies () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-07-01 15:14:17
Message-ID: a227b70c0507010814226c3047 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 01 Jul 2005 09:50:15 -0500, tom poe <tompoe@fiai.net> wrote:
> It has been an interesting 24 hours.  Managed to get what appears to be
> a RH8 apt-get dist-upgrade to take.  Now, also have a yum version for
> rh8 installed, and a /etc/yum.conf file to look at.  I want to use yum
> to move rh8 up to rh9.  Can you point me to the documentation to set yum
> up to do that?  Any pointers appreciated.  My goal is to keep upgrading
> until I get to FC4.  Is this doable, without the ability to burn CDs?
> Tom
If you have a fast connection and can dl the cd/dvd, you can install
from the hard drive. All you need do is copy the relevant vmlinuz
and initrd.img to /boot, amend lilo.conf/grub.conf to suit, backup
/home & /etc and reboot. You'll then have various ways to install
FC4. 

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