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Upgrading from RedHat 9 to Fedora Core 1

• cd /tmp
• wget ftp://ftp.rediris.es/sites2/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/RPMS.os/yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm
• rpm -Uvh yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm
• rm yum-2.0.4-2.noarch.rpm
• cp -p /etc/yum.conf /etc/yum.conf.new
• vi /etc/yum.conf

Change yum.conf to:

1. Yum config file from http://www.xades.com/proj/fedora_repos.html
2. Put this file at /etc/yum.conf

[main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=fedora-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1

[base] name=Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/releases/fedora-core-1

[updates-released] name=Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates baseurl=http://fedora.redhat.com/updates/released/fedora-core-1 http://ftp.dulug.duke.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/os/ ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora-core/1/i386/yum/os/ ftp://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/1/i386/yum/os/

[fedora-extras] name=Fedora Extras 1 - i386 - Extra Packages baseurl=ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable/ http://download.fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable/ gpgcheck=1 failovermethod=priority

[livna-stable] name=Livna 3rd party packages with questionable (in USA) licenses -- use at your own risk baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable

• rpm --import http://www.fedora.us/FEDORA-GPG-KEY
• rpm --import http://rpm.livna.org/RPM-LIVNA-GPG-KEY
• rpm -e lokkit redhat-config-securitylevel firstboot cvs-krb5
• yum -y upgrade > /tmp/fedora_upgrade.log 2>&1
• cp -p /etc/yum.conf.new /etc/yum.conf
• rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

Note that this may take hours to complete...