FWIW, this upgrade can go very smoothly. I've managed to do it a few times successfully now: step 0: install apt for rpm ; backup the server step 1: rpm -e all the packages I wasn't using. step 2: install the Fedora apt repositories into your /etc/apt/sources.list step 3: rpm --import http://www.fedora.us/FEDORA-GPG-KEY (can't recall if this is absolutely necessary) step 4: apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade step 5: ... hopefully nothing goes wrong. You may need to remove a few packages, install a few manually, and note any rpmnew files that were created. step 6: Fedora! I tried yum, and it would probably work as well. But apt just seems a bit faster, more efficient. And, FWIW, I also just recently popped a 2.6.4 kernel on a RH9 box. So far it seems to be working well. At least in a server type load. Basically following http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5793467888.html If you need modules: { cd /usr/src wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/modules/module-init-tool... bzcat module-init-tools-3.0.tar.bz2 | tar x cd module-init-tools-3.0 ./configure --prefix=/ make make moveold make install ./generate-modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.conf } { cd /usr/src wget -O - http://procps.sourceforge.net/procps-3.2.0.tar.gz | tar xz cd procps-3.2.0/ make && make install } rpm -Uvfh http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.6/RPMS.kernel/nfs-utils-1.0.5-1.i386.rpm echo "none /sys sysfs noauto 0 0" >> /etc/fstab mkdir /sys replace 'awk '$2 ~ /^\/$|^\/proc|^\/dev/{next}' with 'awk '$2 ~ /^\/$|^\/proc|^\/sys|^\/dev/{next}' in /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt After /proc mounting in /etc/rc.sysinit: VERSION=`uname -a | sed -e 's;.* \(2\.6\).*;\1;'` if [ "x$VERSION" = "x" ] ; then VERSION="2.4" fi if [ "x$VERSION" = "x2.6" ] ; then action $"Mounting sysfs filesystem: " mount -n -t sysfs /sys /sys fi Done the way suggested in the article you can dual boot your system with either the 2.4 or 2.6 kernel. - Peter http://rimuhosting.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Oliver Jones To: Waikato Linux Users Group Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 11:54 AM Subject: [wlug] Upgrading from RH9 to Fedora Core 1. I decided to upgrade from RH9 to FC1 on the weekend. Below is my experience which I thought I might share with the rest of the LUG.