Purgatory: RH9 -> FC1

[Stuart Biggerstaff]

At 04:57 PM 12/13/04 -0600, Michael Hipp wrote:

>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

Is there another system there that you could SSH into?  Is there someone 
there who could connect a null-modem cable between the two?  If not, you're 
probably stuck.  And if it fails, you are anyway.  Or is there someone 
there you could talk through an upgrade using the CDs?  That's how I used 
to admin OS/2 boxes in New York City.  (Worked way too well--would have 
been nice to get to actually go to NY at employer's expense.)

Of course if updating online from when you get FC1 up works (or if you go 
Debian as you threaten), even if you do end up driving, this could well be 
the last time you need to.

Just look at it this way:  If it weren't for yum/apt-rpm you'd have to make 
the trip for every upgrade, but now get it to Fedora and you're home free 
unless one of them breaks.



Stuart Biggerstaff

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