Re: Upgrade to final release after installing Phoebe

On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 11:43, vocaro.com wrote:
> > Upgrading from beta is never supported.  Things go into the
> > beta that might not make it to the final.  Only upgrading from
> > past final releases is supported.
> 
> Oh sure, I understand that. I'm not going to go crying to Red Hat if I
> can't upgrade from Phoebe-3 to 8.1. But there's no artificial restriction,
> is there? I mean, the 8.1 installer won't just quit if it finds Phoebe on
> my sytem, right? It will at least *try* to upgrade the packages and get
> the system files set up properly. Or will it?

I've never seen it not try to do the upgrade, from a beta to release.
But I'm pretty sure its not gonna go as smoothly as doing a release to
release upgrade.  I always approach opportunities like this as a good
way to learn how certain subsystems on my linux boxen work..as I try to
fix them after the unsupported upgrade does something spectacularly
wrong.  If yer willing to do an unsupported upgrade, that might fubar
yer system to the point where you are gonna have to do a fresh reinstall
anyways...I'm not really sure why yer worried about whether the
installer will limit you from trying. The worse case scenario (and only
supported scenario) no matter what you do after you install the beta, is
to wipe it and do a fresh install.

-jef"learns a lot, by being a dummy"spaleta

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