Can Federa be installed by updating Red Hat?

[Callistus Mendonca]

I tried upgrading from RH9 to FC3, but during the
upgrade the kernel panicked causing me to loose RH9 as
well as the bootloader. Had to do a fresh install in
the end. SO will advice you to backup your data and do
a fresh install.


--- Robin Laing <Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca> wrote:
> Jiann-Ming Su wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:13:17 -0700, Robin Laing
> > <Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca> wrote:
> > 
> >>I wonder if it would work across such a wide range
> of changes?
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > Give it a shot... apt-get dist-upgrade works
> pretty well.
> >  
> > 
> >>Does Debian do SELinux?home at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > Yes, but in my experience, Fedora has done a
> better job of integrating
> > it into its distribution.  Though, the HOWTO was
> written by a debian
> > user (
> >
>
https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=20372&group_id=21266
> > and
>
https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=21959&group_id=21266).
> >  Keep in mind not all filesystems support SELinux.
>  Ext3, and possibly
> > XFS, is your best bet for SE right now.
> 
> My question was to point out that using yum or apt
> would still leave 
> problems on an upgrade.  Phil Schaffner gave the
> best response that 
> there will be issues with any upgrade.  With all the
> changes, an 
> upgrade may not be the best path and could take the
> most time.
> 
> I would love the upgrade path to be easy and
> painless from one version 
> to another but it isn't and I have run into it from
> RH8 to FC1 as well 
> as others around work in FC1 to FC3.  It took me
> almost a year to get 
> some of the little headaches cleared up on my
> machine after an upgrade.
> 
> -- 
> Robin Laing
> 
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