FC3 upgrade without booting off cd

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, David Bandel wrote:
>
> 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.

Yea, but i'd have to wonder how stable or reliable the system would be
while all of that was happening.  Hell, its upgrading stuff like glibc and
adding udev.  Those aren't trivial changes that won't have some kind of
impact.

> This is one of the nice things about Debian upgrades.  They aren't a
> .. OK, everything is going down for the next few hours .. deal.  Same
> for Gentoo.  You upgrade little by little on a daily or weekly basis
> and are always current.

Yea, but you still have to reboot for a kernel change.  And if added or
removed udev/devfs that would be really scary trying to activate the
change on a live system without a reboot.

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