FC3 upgrade without booting off cd

[Michael Hipp]

David Bandel wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:04:43 -0500, Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> wrote:

>>Indeed. But I don't understand the desire to not reboot the system. There's
>>a simple to use mechanism in place to do the updgrade. It's been tested
>>thousands of times on lots of different machines. Why would someone want to
>>bypass all that to try something that may, or may not (probably not) work
>>properly? Just to keep from rebooting? Doesn't make sense to me...
>>
> 
> 
> Probably because during the upgrade process there's at least an hour
> (if not more) where the services provided by the system are not
> available.  The upgrade the original poster wants to do would allow
> services to continue to run until the new service is installed, and
> then a simple restart handles the problem.

I just figured he didn't want to trash his 'uptime' bragging rights. :-)

Michael