[clue-tech] Upgrading Linux in-place

[Chris Egolf]

If you don't mind going the Fedora route, I found this page to be useful in 
upgrading an old FC1 box that wouldn't work w/ the normal upgrade via 
boot-from-CD.

http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading_Red_Hat_Linux_with_yum.html

Granted, this is not an officially supported way to upgrade, but it *might* 
work.  I doubt you'll be able to roll back like you want, but you can test 
things at each stage (i.e. 7.2->9.0, 9.0->FC1, FC1-FC2, etc.)

Todd A. Gibson wrote:
> Hello,
> My production box is running Red Hat 7.2.  All these years I've
> survived through upgrading individual tools (e.g., PHP, glibc, MySQL,
> etc.) The pain now is nearly unbearable.  I'm hitting walls with my
> outdated kernel. I must upgrade soon.
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