FC2 Upgrade to RHEL 4?

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Aug 16 21:18:27 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 14:49 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> > Is it reasonable to go from FC2 to RHEL 4?
> 
> Probably not.  It's definitely not supported, and I don't think that the
> RHEL installer will even recognize FC2 as an installed OS (i.e. it won't
> say "hey I found FC2, would you like to upgrade it?").
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type 'linux upgradeany' at the boot prompt and ananconda should locate
previous Fedora installation and attempt to upgrade it. Some packages
might be renamed and thus not recognized.
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> 
> > Is it reasonable to expect being able to upgrade as opposed to
> > backup/install clean/reload?
> 
> I wouldn't think so.
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it is definitely not a supported method but for the skilled admin, you
can probably make it work pretty well.

I wouldn't personally recommend it.

Craig




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