updating FC4 -> FC5 remotely (no CD of any kind!!)

[Andy Green]

bruce wrote:
> hi...
> 
> given the issue of using yum for an install, i'm trying to figure out how to
> effectively update an FC4 to FC5 without using a CD (either ISO or
> rescueCD). i've seen articles stating that you can do a FTP/NFS install, but
> that you need a 'boot' disk...
> 
> is there a way to do the update/install without using any kind of CD...

Yes, just edit $releasever to 5 in /etc/yum.repos.d/

fedora-core.repo
fedora-extras.repo
fedora-updates.repo

and do a

yum update

and see what happens.  I have done this on a couple of remote boxes now 
with good results, but note they were headless so there were no X11 and 
above (ie, KDE, Gnome) packages involved.

-Andy