Upgrade Red Hat 8.0 -> 9 via apt-get

[Void Main]

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[Linux Frank]

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[DiRL]

Hello and thanks in advance for the help

First let me fill you in a little bit about me; I'm a n00b.

I have installed Redhat9 from cd. I installed apt-get and ran "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" using the freshrpms respository.

I'm interested in upgrading from redhat9 to fedora using apt-get, and I'm wondering if this is possible. In my /etc/apt/sources.list there is not a repository comment for fedora. I'm wondering if anyone has attempted to use apt-get to upgrade from RH9 > Fedora? Would anyone have any advice regarding this upgrade? Am I opening a can of worms that would be better addressed by downloading the images from Redhat and upgrading via CD or is apt-get a workable solution in my case?

[Void Main]

Yes, I upgraded most of my machines from RH9 to FC1 using apt. You can find references to it in this thread:

viewtopic.php?t=700

It's the same procedure that I have explained in this thread except of course you would change your sources.list to point to FC1 rather than RH9 where indicated. I set up my own repository for all of my upgrades but you don't have to. You can find the FC1 repository lines for your sources.list in my FC1 apt tip:

http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/redhat/fe ... _have.html

It wouldn't hurt to read through the entire Fedora thread that I linked to at the top of this post.

[DiRL]

Just wanted to post an update:

added the fedora repository, ran apt-get clean, apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade
everything worked perfectly except for sendmail and lilo, I manually unistalled sendmail and lilo via rpm -e. I then followed that with apt-get install sendmail which worked fine. I then installed grub

Thanks again for your help and I encourage anyone to go ahead with the upgrade, at least for evolution 1.4