upgrading from FC6 to Fedora 7 problems

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Fri Jul 13 01:42:06 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 18:43 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote:
> why are upgrades not possible with the installer while booted into a
> working system? 

You couldn't do that as an in-place update/replacement, because you'd be
replacing the ladder that you're standing on.  It should be possible,
however, as a secondary installation to another location.

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[tim at bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr
2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386

Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.

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