RedHat 9 and Update Agent

[Dierauer Roger]

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

[Roberto Polli]

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.

[Francisco J. Soler]

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.

[Dierauer Roger]

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

kind regards roger

[Andrew Cowan]

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.

[Martin P.J. Zinser]

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

[Paprocki]

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

regards
Florent

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

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

[Dierauer Roger]

excellent solutions