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-Jim P.

On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 13:41, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Thursday 22 July 2004 02:41 pm, Jay Finch wrote:
> 
> > Basically, I'm trying to find a free update service (like up2date was
> > before the RHEL migration) which will handle the updates for a RH9 box.
> > Is there such an animal I could install?  (And someplace that contains
> > some fairly easy-to-follow instructions would be helpful too.  I'm not
> > afraid to get in and do some hacking to make it work, but a good start is
> > always helpful.)
> 
> There are apt (or yum) available update servers, but the real problem is that 
> RH9 is no longer supported, so there are no real updates available.  If all 
> you want is the ability to install rpms without having the CD, I can send you 
> some pointers.
> 
> Otherwise, you can either find a pay service, or switch to a more modern 
> distribution.  Two services I know of are progeny.com with a RH support 
> distribution, and tummy.com with their KRUD distribution.  Both are 
> reasonably priced.
> 
> For updating, you should be able to load up apt, point to the fedora apt 
> server, the do "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade" and after a log while 
> you will have a current Fedora distribution.  You could also install RH 
> enterprise, or one of the clones, but what is the point?  Those are based off 
> RH 9.  Anything else will involve a complete reinstall.
> 
> Michael
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