Upgrade Red Hat Linux 6

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 11:17:36 +0100,
  Federico Fanton <ffanton at ibc.it> wrote:
> On 05/02/2007 21:43, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > hopefully you meant install rather than upgade.  there's no way that
> > upgrading from RH6 to FC6 would turn out well.
> 
> I don't know if it would work for RH6, but I successfully upgraded a
> machine from RH8 to FC4 via yum, one version at a time (RH8->RH9->FC1...)
> Maybe it's not the wisest of things to do of course X-) (and you have to
> consider a few gotchas)

The format for rpm changed between 6 and 8 though, so that approach won't
work without some extra effort.