FC4 --> FC5: yum update? (was: release notes for FC5T3 (web)

[alan]

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006, taharka wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 09:54 -0500, Beartooth NQC wrote:
>> On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:28:55 +0100, Boris Glawe wrote:
>>
>>> Colin Brace wrote:
>>>> [...] what I would really like to
>>>> know is whether it is possible and advisable to do the upgrade next
>>>> week with yum. [...]
>>
>>> I'd not recommend it.
>>>
>>> Fedora Core 5 has many basic changes. For example the X Server
>>> installation is in /usr/bin now, and does not reside in /usr/X11R6/bin
>>> anymore.
>>>
>>> Such "little" details might confuse your additional non-core packages.
>>
>> For those of us too clueless to download ISOs and burn them to CDs or
>> DVDs, is there any preferred place to get those? I've had rather
>> variegated experience buying Fedora media online ...
>
> Have you checked at your local University (VTech) there in Blacksburg?
> Their computer science dept. has a Unix course
> http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs2204/ Maybe they'll burn the FC5 CDs/DVDs
> for you :-)

User groups are your friend.  There is usually at least one person (or 
more) who will make you copies of whatever distro you want.  They can also 
teach you what it takes to download and burn your own.  (It is not hard at 
all.  With tools like K3B, it is easier than the equivelent tools on 
Windows.)

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