Upgrade from FC5 to FC6

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 02:33:23 UTC 2007


On 2/28/07, The Nice Spider <thenicespider at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I see some posting about fc5 upgrade to fc6 using yum.
> My question: Is it possible to use fc6 cd/dvd for
> upgrading my fc5?
>

Yes. I did it. However. I wouldn't do it again. Media check is not
reliable and error recovery/read retry just does not work or has an
unacceptable success rate. I recommend that you use the CD/DVD to boot
and install from a hard drive or network (NFS or FTP).




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