Re: Upgrading From 7.2 to 9

On Fri, 9 May 2003, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:

> 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.

I have done hard drive upgrades from ISOs without problems, even though
the ISO images were on the partitions I was upgrading. (Of course if it
does go wrong you are in trouble!)

> Why doesn't RedHat have a distro-upgrade like Debian? That's probably
> the best newbie friendly feature a distro could have imo.

It is possible to try it with RedHat, (eg. the latest version of up2date
has a --upgrade-to-release option), but because software tends to be
incompatible between major versions, you are in trouble if you don't do
things in the right order, and in fact there may not even be a right
order. Hence it would be a nightmare to support, which is presumably why
RedHat don't support it.

	Michael Young