The basis of my concern regarding Jeffrey's approach regarding using
yum to update/upgrade across different versions of YDL however, is
exactly the problem you experienced.

Besides there is another difficulty also, yum didn't exist yet for YDL
3; it used apt-get.

    

um, it did? apt-get was available but yum debuted in 3.0, and 2.3 used
'yup' Yellowdog UPdater, which is where 'yum' gets its name Yellowdog
Updater Modified.

  
Thanks for walking us down memory lane with your usual smoothness. 8-)
I appreciate the explanation regarding yum's name, I always thought someone had gotten a sudden exposure to one of Ben & Jerry's flavors and couldn't figure out what else to say! :-D

  
However, there's nothing like an official statement from TSS:

http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/faq/upgrade.shtml
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yeah installing 4.x directly is a much better idea, and on OW installing
4.0 wont work but 4.0.1 should (4.0 didnt have some OW support compiled
into the kernel)

  
That would explain why setting up YDL 4.0 to run with BootX on my old 233MHz G3 was so difficult!
i havnt looked at this thread too closely, but will check on installing
4.x on an OW again, and make a new install guide if need be.

sloopy.

Please consider doing so sloppy, there seems to be a concerted effort (amongst various users) to go beyond these and other design limitations.  The information you have and know of, is not easily found.  If these details were more readily available (and people knew to regularly reference at that place) I'm sure some efforts (such as where this and other threads seem attempt exploring or working at) would not have begun in the first place.

Always a pleasure.... :-)

Derick.
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