On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 11:43, vocaro.com wrote: > > Upgrading from beta is never supported. Things go into the > > beta that might not make it to the final. Only upgrading from > > past final releases is supported. > > Oh sure, I understand that. I'm not going to go crying to Red Hat if I > can't upgrade from Phoebe-3 to 8.1. But there's no artificial restriction, > is there? I mean, the 8.1 installer won't just quit if it finds Phoebe on > my sytem, right? It will at least *try* to upgrade the packages and get > the system files set up properly. Or will it?
I've never seen it not try to do the upgrade, from a beta to release. But I'm pretty sure its not gonna go as smoothly as doing a release to release upgrade. I always approach opportunities like this as a good way to learn how certain subsystems on my linux boxen work..as I try to fix them after the unsupported upgrade does something spectacularly wrong. If yer willing to do an unsupported upgrade, that might fubar yer system to the point where you are gonna have to do a fresh reinstall anyways...I'm not really sure why yer worried about whether the installer will limit you from trying. The worse case scenario (and only supported scenario) no matter what you do after you install the beta, is to wipe it and do a fresh install. -jef"learns a lot, by being a dummy"spaleta
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