Yes, you should be very nervous. It means you understand the risk 
involved.

That being said, I have managed to get this system from RedHat 7.1, to 
7.3, then on to 8.0 as upgrades with no problems.  I'm just using this 
machine as a workstation, however, so my experience may not be typical.

If you can, make a complete backup before proceeding.  Even if it means 
borrowing a CD burner or tape drive for a few days.

Good luck!

TJ

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Ed Skinner wrote:

>      My fallback system needs to be upgraded: not just the kernel but the 
> basic RedHat installation. (It's running RH 7.1 but a software product I need 
> to work with requires 7.3.) Because this is my fallback (read: has backup 
> copies from all other systems) machine, I'm hesitant to just pop in RH7.3 CDs 
> and tell it to "do it."
>      Should I be nervous?
> 
>