Re: Upgrading From 7.2 to 9.0

> Keith Mastin wrote:
>>>Since I can't burn CD's or afford to buy the boxed set, I had an idea
>>> on
>>> how I could upgrade. I could download the RPM's from RedHat (or a
>>>mirror) and upgrade using RedCarpet[0]. My question to you guys is,
>>> will
>>> this work? If not, what other options do I have? And is this even the
>>>right list to ask on?
>>
>>
>> I don't think this will work. Redcarpet is not generally for full
>> version upgrades as much as it is for general updates, vis-a-vis
>> up2date.
>
> Fudge. I figured as much. :(
>
>>
>> If you have a spare hard drive kicking around, download the iso's to
>> there and unwrap the iso images to the installation files etc.
>>
>
> I do, but I've already downloaded about (or over) half the RPM's
> already! Gah. I've never had any luck with trying to do an install via
> ISO from the harddrive.
>
> Why doesn't RedHat have a distro-upgrade like Debian? That's probably
> the best newbie friendly feature a distro could have imo.
>
> *sighs and ponders what to do next*

... well, since you did mention Debian... I'm one of the dudes phasing out
all my redhat servers over to Deb, and the network install is one of the
pluses.

IIRC, you can also do an ftp install of redhat, but I dunno if they kept
this feature for the newer (8 or 9) releases.

-- 
Keith Mastin
BeechTree Information Technology Services Inc.
Toronto, Canada
(416)696 6070