'yum upgrade' anyone?

[Timothy Murphy]

Joe Klemmer wrote:

> 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.

I upgraded a Sony Picturebook (C1VFK), which would not read the CD,
in this way.
In principle this is very easy -
just download fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm and install (with rpm)
and then run "yum upgrade" (assuming you have internet connection)
This worked in my case, but took over 14 hours IIRC -
about 3 hours to download the rpm's,
and the rest to run the transaction.


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