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[Timothy Murphy]

John Summerfield wrote:

> On Wednesday 01 December 2004 11:29, drshrek wrote:
>> hi guys.. my remote server run fedora core 1. I am planning to upgrade
>> it to fedora core 3. can I do this task remotely using like yum
>> command? thanks for the help.
> 
> Since you need to ask, probably not:-)

I don't see any need to be rude/smart.
It seemed to me a perfectly sensible question.

> Not unless you use one of those fancy networked KVMs.

I've seen postings from people who did what the poster asks,
basically I think by running "yum upgrade" with appropriate repositories.

Personally, I have found that the distribution kernels
have not worked on my SCSI-only machine for some time,
so in my case it would have been difficult to upgrade remotely.



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