RH8 to FC1?

[Tim McDonough <tim@mcdonough.net>]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:00:42 -0600, Steven Pritchard wrote:

> Oh, yeah, I guess I over-snipped your message.  I meant to mention
> that.  :-)
> 
>> Hmm. don't know about the upgrade to Fedora thing just yet, how
>> about installing the latest and greatest version of samba rpm ?
>> Would that be equivalent (or close?)
>> 
> 
> Well, that would get you the latest & greatest Samba, but that
> wouldn't help with the other problems.  Like I said:
> 
>> RH8 had some nasty bugs in rpm that aren't fixed in any errata.
>> It's really a Bad Idea to stick with it.
>> 
> 
> And by "nasty bugs" I mean "eat rpm's database" kind of bugs.  When
> that happens, it is a *real* pain to recover.  You may as well be
> running Slackware at that point.

Steve --

(Dumb question alert) I have FC1 CDs. Will it let you upgrade over a 
RH8 system or is it a fresh install that will need reconfiguring from 
scratch, etc.?

Tim


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