'yum upgrade' anyone?

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 6/16/06, Joe Klemmer <klemmerj at webtrek.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>         I have a difficulty.  My laptop's CD/DVD drive has decided to be really
> stupid and not work anymore.  The system is therefor not easy to
> upgrade.  It's got FC4 on it now and I'd like to get FC5.  My question
> is...
>
>         Has anyone done a "yum upgrade" to upgrade their system?  I found the
> basic info from the net at -
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq#head-bdd1ed4a339aa22c95c238af0e3323c0bccf6167
> and
> http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading_Red_Hat_Linux_with_yum.html
>
> but it would be nice to know if it has been done successfully (or not)
> before I go trashing everything.
>
> TIA<
> Joe

I see people all the time who claim that it works. I personally rather
the fresh smell of new bytes.
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