Purgatory: RH9 -> FC1

[David Bandel]

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:47:25 -0800, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> 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.

Lonnie, if all you can do is spread FUD, hit delete instead of send.

I have Debian testing systems (my sources.list has both stable and
testing) all over Panama.  I think nothing of updating systems it
takes days to get to (I have systems on mountain tops and in the
jungle).  And testing is pretty up-to-date.  Stable is old, but I'm
not crazy enough to run unstable because it is.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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