yum upgrade from fc3 ---> fc5?

[James Pifer]

On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 16:25 -0700, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 07:17:54PM -0400, James Pifer wrote:
> > Anyone know how to fix this problem?
> 
> I don't know about this specific problem, but you may have to remove
> some packages to do a successful upgrade via yum from FC3 to FC5.
> 
> > Are there any good docs (still googling) for updating from fc3 to fc5?
> 
> There's these:
> 
> http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading_Red_Hat_Linux_with_yum.html
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
> 
> I'm going to try this operation myself soon (going from FC4), so please
> write back with your experience.
> 

No luck for me so far. I'm trying to go from fc3 -> fc4 as in the first
doc above. I just have too many deps that fail and every time I try to
remove a package it goes way to deep in removing other packages. 

For example, I have a problem with deps for pkg pythonabi. If I just try
to remove it says it's needed by three other packages. If I try to
remove those as well, they are required by others, all the way down to
yum itself. 

Axel, you suggested doing the upgrade from anaconda. Are you referring
to booting off the CD/DVD and doing the upgrade process? Unfortunately
my system has four HDD and no CD/DVD. I tried hooking up a DVD drive
using a IDE to USB converter, but the system won't boot off of it. The
BIOS does have USB boot enabled, and I have another system that boots
off the same USB DVD, so I don't know why this one won't.

How about a boot floppy and use anaconda over NFS? How would I get a
boot floppy(s) created for this?

Thanks,
James