Moving from Red Hat 9 to Fedora (core ??)

redhat_newbie

Lads,

I have a fully patched Red Hat 9 box. But Red Hat support ended on April 30th.
Do I need to update to Fedora or stay with the updated Red Hat 9 box at the moment. As I am used to Red Hat, I am not much keen in other distributions of Linux.

I have dual boot --WinXP Prof and Red Hat 9
So to install Fedora , do I have to follow the same kind of procedure while install Red Hat 9 (boot from the CD , grub , install on the same partitions as current RH9 is)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you all,
cheers,
RHN ww)

Typedef

I don't use Red Head Linux, but.

As far as I've felt in vibrations in the force, you can use yum or apt to update to Fedora.

flamegrill

There is fedora legacy support, which as far as I know you can get updates for redhat back as far as 7.3. This may end at any stage, so it may be best to use apt and update to fedora core 1.

Paul

Paulw

Fedora core 2 is due out in a month or so. I've recently installed RH9 myself, but I'll wait for core 2 before updating to Fedora.

redhat_newbie

flamegrill and TypeDef, could you guys please explain me in steps how to upgrade using apt

It doesn't seem that I have apt installed on my machine. It would be helpful if you suggest us the steps regarding apt and updating to fedora.

what is the difference between fedora core 1 and core 2?
is it kernel 2.4 and 2.6

cheers,
RHN ww)

Rambo

just but the fedora cd in drive and follow the upgrade instructions that what I did

Fedora only diff from Redhat 9 is the rpm package number and some nice
graphics on startup the rest in the same.

redhat_newbie

Lads,

Could you please pour some light on the help regarding using apt . Just for the sake of knowlegde I would like to know about apt and updating the OS using apt.

I have searched google regarding apt. Its says download the apt package (debian mostly).

cheers,
RHN

ww)

leeroybrown

apt is Debian's advanced package management tool and is (in my opinion) the best packaging system available. apt is excellent for managing dependancies, conflicts and provides a very effective security update mechanism.

There is a port of apt to RedHat called apt-rpm. The last time I installed RedHat was 7.1 so I've never used apt-rpm. As far as I know Fedora supports apt as a package management system (along with yum).

Search for apt-rpm and you'll find loads of information, howto's, etc.

dahamsta

Info about apt on Red Hat:

http://freshrpms.net/

adam

redhat_newbie

Thanks a million lads,

Gone through your suggested sites.

There are fedora core 1 , Fedora 1.90 ( sometime fedora 2 test 1 test 2).
Lot of confusion !

So, i better wait for Fedora Core 2

Cheers,
RHN
ww)

BenH

To upgrade your distro by apt, you need a relevant sources.list in \etc\apt

Then you need to run apt-get update, this will obtain the package list and from this determine which packages to upgrade.

Then you run apt-get dist-upgrade or apt upgrade for the latest versions of apt an sit back while either your debs based system upgrades itself to the desired level. Or on a rpm system wget's all the required rpm's; sticks them all in \var\cache\apt\archive, attempts to rpm -Uvh the lot and then runs into a conflict it cant resolve if your lucky or installs the lot and then you find your system unbootable due to an odd hardware software conflict.

Of course despite these bitter experiences with upgrading my distro so, I do use it every day to install dependencies for particular packages which it excells at. Just be sure of what your installing.

As for Fedora, core 1 has very little in it that makes it different from RH9, core 2 however is promising a 2.6 kernel with the SE patches fully intergrated and all the latest windowmanagers so I'd recommend waiting for that.

nadir

redhat_newbie: also have a look ap atpitude, it makes interfacing with apt all that bit easier.

Leeroybrown: I do think that apt-get is best for servers, very stable packages .etc , but portage wins imo for having the latest available packages, and ... its just such a damn funky system.