FC2 Upgrade to RHEL 4?

[Thomas Cameron]

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 14:18 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> 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?").
> ----
> 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.

I was responding to the OP's question - "is it reasonable."  In my
experience, no.  An unsupported, questionably functioning installation
of RHEL is not reasonable.

> > 
> > > Is it reasonable to expect being able to upgrade as opposed to
> > > backup/install clean/reload?
> > 
> > I wouldn't think so.
> ----
> it is definitely not a supported method but for the skilled admin, you
> can probably make it work pretty well.

I wouldn't bet anything in production on it.

> I wouldn't personally recommend it.

What he said.

Thomas