Purgatory: RH9 -> FC1

[Net Llama!]

On 12/13/2004 02:57 PM, Michael Hipp wrote:
> 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.

No, you setup serial console, or null modem cables between two boxes, 
and then you ssh into one box, and use the serial console to the box 
you're upgrading.

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

Not really.

> 
> 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.


Yea, and debian takes years to release new versions, and are always way 
behind schedule.  have fun with that.

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