topic Re: RedHat 9 and Update Agent in Operating System - Linux

RedHat 9 and Update Agent

Dierauer Roger — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 03:05:31 GMT

Hello Forum
one Question:
I have RH9.0 installed and will upgrade the latest packages... How? RedHat has now changed to Fedora... How ich configure the RH UP2DATE-Tool for use the Fedora Updater?

kind regards Roger

Re: RedHat 9 and Update Agent

Roberto Polli — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 04:01:02 GMT

Being Rh9 no more manteineed I suggest you to use the latest patches and stop upgrading if you don't have to.
There are a lot of considerations to do about it:
- the hw vendor supports linux (eg. hp) if so check hp.com/linux to find out a policy of upgrade.
- do you _really_ need the latest patches/packages?

You can download latest rh9 patches from rh site (i suggesto you mirroring whole ftp directory tree using wget ;-)

Else you can install and configure yum
(find on google) but I suggest to shift entirely to fedora instead of doing it..

Pace, R.

Re: RedHat 9 and Update Agent

Francisco J. Soler — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 06:49:35 GMT

Hi, you can download the Fedora iso images and toast your 3 CDs, then you can boot from 1st CD and upgrade your system.

Frank.

Re: RedHat 9 and Update Agent

Dierauer Roger — Thu, 22 Apr 2004 08:22:54 GMT

hi peoples, thnx for your tipps
i will try out to update for fedora...

kind regards roger

Re: RedHat 9 and Update Agent

Andrew Cowan — Fri, 23 Apr 2004 14:32:53 GMT

There are a couple of small problems with the upgrades. It does reset some files such as /etc/dhcpd.conf to their defaults. it also removed my Alcatel Speedtouch drivers.

My advice is to take a backup first, and keep it handy.

Re: RedHat 9 and Update Agent

Martin P.J. Zinser — Sat, 24 Apr 2004 07:58:31 GMT

Hello Roger,

you can get fedora via http://fedora.redhat.com

The latest stable version is Core 1, the latest released is Test 2 for Core 2. Core 2 will use the 2.6 kernel series, which is required for some of the more recent peripherals.

Greetings, Martin

Re: RedHat 9 and Update Agent

Paprocki — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 09:00:01 GMT

Upgrading Red Hat Linux/Fedora Core with yum:
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading_Red_Hat_Linux_with_yum.html

regards
Florent

Re: RedHat 9 and Update Agent

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 01:15:07 GMT

Roger,

If you're looking for linux for production environment - I recommend RHEL and not FC.
FC lifecycle is <1year; see this page for more:

http://fedora.redhat.com/about/rhel.html

Rgds,
Vitaly

Re: RedHat 9 and Update Agent

Dierauer Roger — Fri, 17 Sep 2004 01:24:48 GMT

excellent solutions