On Thursday 06 November 2003 17:43, Mike Coolin wrote: > After reviewing the Fedora site and this list I find that thier is no clear > migration path stated for current RH9 users. > > How does one go about upgrading to Fedora from RH9? Download the ISOs, upgrade your RH9, done. > Will my data be put at risk? No. I even migrated from ext2 to ext3 during upgrade. > Will my applications contiue to function? Yes. At least I got no big problems. The only one so far is the mysqld startup strip (known bug) ending with "Failed" altough it's actualy runing after the start command. > While it appears that you need to install from CD, redhat seems to have > gone out > of thier way to not inform users how they can migrate safely from RH9 to > any of the offerings of RH ES or Fedora. It works just fine. At least I cannot complain about anything. I just moved to 2.6.0-test9 with FC1. Not realy tested yet though. > Am I alone in the finding that the migration section of the redhat site is > seriously lacking in useful migration howto instructions. backup all vital stuff (you never know ...) do the upgrade If you scared to do it on a production machine (I would not go for it right now) do it on a test machine (what I did). I must say, great job Fedora folks :-) -- Just GNU it!
