I took the liberty of adding these corrections to my blog, giving due recognition to O. Palmeras. Thanks.
P~Manalastas *** --- O Plameras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Before doing the 2 steps below, I'd do this first: > > #mv /etc/yum.repos.d /etc/yum.repos.d.orig > #mkdir /etc/yum.repos.d > #chmod 755 /etc/yum.repos.d > > The above procedure is intended to avoid having > conflicting modules > in your upgrades. Conflicts will bomb out your > procedure. > > Then proceed with, > #rpm -Uvh \ > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/Fedora/fedora-release-notes-7.0.0-1.noarch.rpm > > #rpm -Uvh \ > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/Fedora/fedora-release-7-3.noarch.rpm > > After the 2 steps above, the procedure I follow is > to do, > > #yum -y update kernel (instead of yum -y upgrade). > > Then an extra step namely, reboot linux to the > updated kernel and do > > #yum -y update > > Then, manually restore what ever repos you have in > your > /etc/yum.repos.d.orig and run this again > > #yum -y update > > When you 'yum -y upgrade' without updating and > rebooting to kernel FC7 > you'd get many conflicting > systems modules that will not resolve and hence will > bomb out your > upgrade procedure. > > Hope this helps. > > O Plameras _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
