posted 19 years ago
You can do an upgrade install to migrate RedHat 7 to FC3. FC3, BTW, just went live about the 8th of November, which is why you may not have heard of it yet. A backup is always recommended, since you might accidentally click the wrong buttons and end up doing a full install and/or repartition the disk.
I should caution that since Red Hat has moved a number of things around between RH7.1 and FC3, you may need to examine your config files carefully. Samba, in particular gave me headaches. Fortunately, the RPM utility will create ".rpmsave" files if a new config file is required and create ".rpmnew" files if they think your old config file is OK, but may not have all the latest options in it.
You'll have a lot of packages to come up to date on anyhow. Bind 9, Samba 3, Apache 2, PHP 4 (5?) etc. etc. Don't expect to be able to do a hot update on a production Internet server and escape unscathed.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.