[Fwd: upgrade from 8.0 (fwd)]

[Kevin Fries]

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Ow Mun Heng wrote:

|Forwarded Messasge below from someone who can't get their posts to the
|list.
|
|Colin,
|
|can you see what's happening and if you can help.
|
|
|-----Forwarded Message-----
|From: Rory Barnes <rory at hindmost.lpl.arizona.edu>
|To: Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com
|Subject: upgrade from 8.0 (fwd)
|Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2005 22:04:36 -0700
|
|hi ow, you seem to be responding to a lot of e-mail on this list. can you
|help me out? i have sent the message below several times over the
past few
|days and haven't gotten any responses, and haven't seen it posted in my
|inbox either. there doesn't appear to be a moderator for this list that i
|can appeal to either.
|
|thanks,
|rory
|
|---------- Forwarded message ----------
|Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 20:37:50 -0700 (MST)
|From: Rory Barnes <rory at hindmost.LPL.Arizona.EDU>
|To: fedora-list at redhat.com
|Subject: upgrade from 8.0 (fwd)
|
|can anybody read this e-mail yet?
|
|---------- Forwarded message ----------
|Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2005 10:38:55 -0700 (MST)
|From: Rory Barnes <rory at hindmost.LPL.Arizona.EDU>
|To: fedora-list at redhat.com
|Subject: upgrade from 8.0 (fwd)
|
|i sent this out yesterday and got no response and didn't receive it in my
|inbox. is anybody getting this message?
|
|---------- Forwarded message ----------
|Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 17:54:38 -0700 (MST)
|From: Rory Barnes <rory at hindmost.LPL.Arizona.EDU>
|To: fedora-list at redhat.com
|Subject: upgrade from 8.0
|
|i am trying to upgrade my system from rh8.0 to fedora. however when
|i install it tells me that my linuxconf is not what it should be, and
|exits abnormally. my /etc/linuxconf dir contains an "archive" directory.
|anybody run into this problem and know how to fix it?
|
|thanks,
|rory

I have had great luck with apt-get upgrades from older versions of Red
Hat.  Usually I have done this from RH9, but one server was upgraded
all the way from RH 7.2.

Install apt for your version of Redhat, then install synaptic.  Take
it slowly, one version upgrade at a time.  Apply all the updates, then
go to the next version.  If you don't rush it, things generally go
pretty well.

HTH
Kevin Fries
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