Upgrade process from FC3 to FC4?

Basil Copeland blcjr2 at gmail.com
Wed May 18 16:45:44 UTC 2005


On 5/18/05, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> >>
> >>
> >But doesn't this mean that one would have to install it *after* the
> >initial install from cd or dvd?  Not that it would be so hard to do.
> >I'm just wanting to make sure I understand the process
> >
> >
> For Fedora Core 4, yes but the good news is that Fedora Extras
> repository will be enabled by default so you can just use yum install
> <packagename> to install any package from extras. For Fedora Core 5,
> support for adding additional repositories is planned within the
> installer itself
> 

Cool (about Fedora Core 5).  "Yum install" is how I planned to do it
with Fedora Core 4, when I have to.  Like on any new computers.  But
I've got a couple stable and fully updated Core 3 boxes that upgrading
may be the better way to get to Core 4.

Thanks for the valuable insights.




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