John P. Looney wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 09:36:49AM +0000, Kenn Humborg mentioned:
>>>Don't go around recommending yum/apt as a way to upgrade to FC3.
>>FC3's installer does some magic to switch from a static /dev to
>>a udev-based one. There are manual steps to do this if you're not
>>using anaconda (described in the release notes), but I don't think
>>mortals want to try that.
>> Hmm. I just upgraded with apt this morning, and haven't had any
> problems...yet. udev is the solution to hotplug woes, yes ? Could you
> share the sort of woes I should expect ?
>> My system was running FC1, then upgraded to 1.9, then downgraded
> semi-manuallly to 1.0 again, then upgraded to 2.0, then upgraded to 3.0.
> It seems OK, though the tetex packages caused apt to get confused, and run
> busy till I removed them manually, and kicked off the dist-upgrade again.
Are you sure that upgrades everything?
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-November/msg00159.html
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