Purgatory: RH9 -> FC1

[Michael Hipp]

Net Llama! wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
> 
>>Net Llama! wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Perhaps.  I'm suggesting doing the upgrade by booting off the FC3 CD, and
>>>selecting the upgrade option.
>>
>>I'd much prefer that for this particular box that is sitting in the next
>>room. But I'm hoping to avoid a site visit (or two) to do the others.
>>That's the objective of this exercise. There seems to be no shortage of
>>reports of folks who have done these upgrades entirely via yum so I'm
>>assuming success is possible. Am I crazy?
> 
> 
> Well, that's what serial consoles are for.

Do you have a serial cable 1,056,000 feet long I can borrow? That's how 
far it is to the one that's 200 miles away. I suppose I could go 
cross-country through the national forest and cut off maybe 40 miles but 
I fear getting a permit from the Dept. of the Interior might be a problem.

And I won't consider installing a serial modem and phone line on each 
computer. The Internet made such things obsolete.

If this doesn't work, then I fear I will finally succumb to the Darkside 
and become an apprentice to the Debian Sith Lords. If the written words 
are to be believed, they find nothing strange about doing apt-get 
dist-upgrade to a running system many parsecs away.

Michael