Fedora 2 upgrade

[cris]

I did all of the steps recommended to upgrade to Fedora 2, but when I do the
cat /etc/fedora-release, it tells me that I have fedora core 1 (yarrow).  Is
that normal?
Cheers,
Cris
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 9:51 PM
Subject: Re: Fedora 2 install


> yum upgrade
>
> will upgrade the entire system. If it works correctly it will take you
from FC1 to FC2.
>
> yum update
>
> would keep you in FC1 by only updating to newer versions within that
release.
>
> You can tell, after yum completes, with:
>
> cat /etc/fedora-release
>
> Stephen Clower writes:
> > Hi Janina,
> >   I'll certainly give that a try. Will this only upgrade the currently
installed server packages, or is there a way to get the whole shabang with
the yum command?
> >
> >
> > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
> >
> > On 5/23/2004 at 4:57 PM Janina Sajka wrote:
> >
> > >Well, if you have a broadband connection to the net, you might want to
> > >reconfigure /etc/yum.conf for FC2 and do:
> > >
> > >yum upgrade
> > >
> > >That might get you there. Be sure to exclude the kernel from the
upgrade
> > >though. You'll want to put that one in by hand to get Speakup support.
> > >
> > >Example exclude:
> > >
> > >exclude=kernel kernel-doc kernel-source kernel-smp *debuginfo*
> > >
> > >
> > >Stephen Clower writes:
> > >> Hi Janina,
> > >>
> > >> I didn't think partition resizing would have made a difference, but I
> > >wanted to make sure I tried absolutely everything, including a fresh
> > >partitioning in case the installation script looked for a partition
number
> > >that didn't exist. Yes, the MD5sums showed that my CD-rom's were
correct.
> > >Fedora Core 1 did install, and in both instances I was using the
Speakup
> > >modified Iso images. I guess I could always just install a whole lot of
> > >RPM packages failing a solution.
> > >> Stephen Clower, that guy from the south.
> > >> You can reach me by any of the following:
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> > >>
> > >>
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> Technology Research and Development
> Governmental Relations Group
> American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
>
> Chair, Accessibility Workgroup
> Free Standards Group (FSG)
>
> Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
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