On Wednesday 13 February 2008 17:05:08 Richard Heck wrote: > This is complicated under Fedora. There are ways to upgrade "on the > fly", then reboot, but this is not trivial and can lead to problems. > It's one of the less desirable facts about Fedora. The approved method > is to reboot using an install disk and then choose "upgrade". So it > might be hard to do this without physical access.
Actually all those troubles are documented. :-) I know because I have updated using yum since FC-4. This works quite well for the n -> n+1 jump. The n -> n+2 works although it can be a bit tricky because of the package dependency changes. The n -> n+4 is a leap of faith. :-) > Richard -- José Abílio
