Apologies for dumb questions

[Dan Anderson]

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 17:05:02 -0500, Drew, Bill <drewwe at morrisville.edu> wrote:
> I wanted to apologize for my dumb questions on upgrading to a newer
> Fedora Core.  After all of the positive things I have heard and seen for
> Linux and the Fedora Core, I expected the upgrade to be much simpler.
> If one has an older computer with Fedora Core 1 on it, it is next to
> impossible to upgrade with burning CDs.  I do not have a CD burner on
> this machine that I am using to learn FC and Linux.  Someone is sending
> me CDs for FC2.  I had thought with using a graphical interface such as
> synaptic for apt I could get files that would install through synaptic
> without going to using CD-ROMs.


I installed several systems by pointing at the FC2 repositories
(only!, remove the FC1 ones) and running apt-get upgrade; apt-get
dist-upgrade.

YMMV