Yum crash

[Qian Qiao]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:16:55 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> Qian Qiao wrote:
> > I currently have a box running RH 8.0, and I am planning to upgrade it
> > to FC3, because I need NPTL support.
> >
> > I've installed fedora-releases package ok, but I found no luck
> > installing the yum from FC3 directly onto the RH8 as it always fails
> > the dependency check, and can't be installed even with --force.
> >
> > I then turned to the yum package from RH9 and was hoping that I could
> > use yum to upgrade itself.
> >
> > The yum was installled successfully, however, if I do a yum upgrade
> > yum, it simply crashes the machine.
> >
> > Is there any way to get round that? Is there any hope that I could
> > still upgrade the box to FC3?
> 
> Is there any particular reason why you want to do this using yum rather than
> an upgrade using anaconda?
> 
> Paul.
> 
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It's a remote box, I don't have physical access to it. So I went for
yum, tell me if I've made the wrong choice.

Thanks

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