Upgrade 2.3 to 3.0?

[nathan r. hruby]

On Sat, 26 Apr 2003, Beartooth wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 14:33:29 -0400 (EDT), "nathan r. hruby" 
> <nathan@drama.uga.edu> wrote : 
> 
> > For the 3.0 release that's probably tru, though it's now using
> > anaconda, so if /home is on a seperate partition (as it should be)
> > then all you really need to do is format the other stuff in the
> > installer and not /home.
> 
> 	I'll gladly do that, but I haven't the faintest idea how. Does 
> it walk you through doing it?
> 

anaconda is the RedHat installer.  If you've ever installed RedHat it's 
exactly the same.  For the /home issue when you get to configuring your 
disks it drops you into DiskDruid, you tell it where to put what partition 
and then it asks if you want to format the partition when done, answer 
'no' for the /home partition.

Warning: It's fairly easy to scew this up, you should backup /home before 
doing this.  Also, since 3.0 is really different than 2.3, your 
preferences will make things like GNOOME/KDE freak out.  There's an 
article on yellowdoglinux.com/support about how to move your stuff.

> > Failing that, you might be able to cajole apt into do the upgrade, at
> > least as far as getting a newer version of rpm + dependancies
> > installed and then let yum handle the rest.
> 
> 	Err ... duhhh ... which way is up, there? Is that "cajole -Uvh" 
> as root, or "cajole -fxvQ" as branch, or do I put my thumb somewhere and 
> hope? [iow, you're about a parsec over my head, alas! :-)]
> 

You might be able to upgrade a running 2.3 system to 3.0 using apt.  Apt 
can screw stuff up sometimes, so you may want to use apt to do a minimal 
upgrade and then use the (new to ydl-3.0) yum updater to finish the 
upgrade.  If you look back into the archives, there's info about 
upgrading 2.x releases to 2.3 using apt, that information would be a good 
primter if you decide to go this route.

Again, upgrades are never an ideal route, so there are always going to be 
issues you need to be aware of due to the complicated nature of what an 
upgrade does.

> > Err.. 3.0 should be on mirror sites soonish now so, hopefullt some
> > brave soul will take the plunge.  I have a box to upgrade soon as
> > well, so hopeful once the semster ends in a fews weeks I can setup a
> > test box and try to document the process.
> 
> 	Do please report! I may manage to understand eventually. 

It'll be a few weeks before I have time.

-n
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