Upgrade from FC6 to FC11

[Excalibur Xcalibur]

The easiest way is to download the iso file and make a personal repo.
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/redhat-centos-fedora-linux-setup-repo.html

And yes, it works great!

<http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/redhat-centos-fedora-linux-setup-repo.html>
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Peter "Excalibur"

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Excalibur Xcalibur <
excalibur.xcalibur at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think I'll move to CentOS. That sounds like a good move. :) Thanks for
> the feedback.
> I was wondering whether I can use yum directly? I'll look into it but if
> anybody has done in in the past and/or is aware of the relevant
> documentation, please let me know.
>
> --
> Peter "Excalibur"
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 10:17 +0200, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
>> > It is a little puzzling that when someone asks on a fedora ML how to
>> > upgrade Fedora, the answer is often "upgrade to CentOS instead".
>>
>> It's common enough advice for servers, or other computers where you want
>> a long lifespan.  Fedora needs upgrading about once a year to the next
>> release, or you'll not have any updates for it, leaving you with unfixed
>> bugs, and security problems.  Alternatively, CentOS has a much longer
>> support cycle (several years), where you can continue to update packages
>> without having to upgrade the entire distribution.
>>
>> Upgrading can be quite a hassle on servers with data that needs keeping,
>> or converting to newer formats, or if you have equipment in a rack that
>> will need disassembling to change/add a drive because of boot device
>> restrictions.
>>
>> --
>> [tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
>> 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
>>
>> Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.  I
>> read messages from the public lists.
>>
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