Unable to use instructions to using yum 2.x on RH 9

[Jeff Sheltren]

On Jan 19, 2006, at 7:39 AM, Ronald Bradford wrote:

> My apologies, I thought my system was RedHat 9.  it was kernel  
> 2.4.20-18.7    I did a google on 2.4.20 and it came back with  
> references to 9.
>
> Seems my assumptions when I got the server years ago was wrong, and  
> it is indeed  7.3
> I've been able to update everything to current packages under 7.3  
> however in more reading I see this still doesn't cut it.
>
> Could anybody provide any good references for upgrading 7.3 to 9,  
> which appears what I have to do, however a number of sites I've  
> reviewed provide some misleading info.
>
> Regards
>
> Ronald Bradford
>

Hi Ronald, you may want to do something like a 'yum upgrade' (after  
adding the rh9 repos to your yum.conf file) and see what happens but  
going from 7.3 -> 9 may be a bit of a headache.  I'm a bit curious  
why you would want to upgrade from one old, unsupported by RedHat  
distribution to another?  If this is a desktop machine, I'd recommend  
looking into Fedora Core 4, or FC5 soon, and if it's a server, why  
not go with RedHat Enterprise 4 or a free alternative?

-Jeff