upgrading from FC1 to FC2 with yum!

W. Guy Thomas mrguytx at austin.rr.com
Mon Oct 4 22:49:36 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 19:51, Filippos Klironomos wrote:
> >
> > Does  anyone know how to begin an install from this way?
> > 
> 
> If I remember correctly there is an option to give to yum.conf to
> include a cdrom or a dir into the searched repository. A 'man yum'
> will definitely give you the answer to that. I am away from my machine
> so can't go further than that.
> 
> On the other hand this might be an 'apt-get' option so in that case I
> would try something like
> 
> [cdrom]
> name=Local Repository
> baseurl=file:///mnt/dir/fedora/etc/etc/etc/RPMS.os
> 
> into the '/etc/yum.conf' and see what happens. :-)

and this worked!
at least it upgraded everything.
I'll reboot in a sec and confirm I'm at Tettnang.
hopefully.
lol.

what an ordeal!
thanks guys.

=G




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