El vie, 21-11-2003 a las 13:01, Leguijt, Jaap J SIEP-EPT-AER escribió: > Hello, > > I have a computer running with the Redhat 7.2 release of Linux. What > is the procedure I need to follow if I want to upgrade my machine to > the newest Fedora release? > > Regards, > > Jaap Leguijt Despite another opinions about the upgrading between mayor versions (there are two of that between 7.2 and FC1), I've upgrade two machines (one a laptop) that were RHL 8 installed first, and updated to the bug fixes, erratas and security patches (official RHN) to october 2003. Then I inserted the disks (burned from iso's from a official mirror here in Spain), starting by disk 1, and reboot. The installer detected my Red Hat Linux 8 previously installed on hda4, and the FAT32 on hda1, upgraded grub to mantain dual-boot between Windows Me and FC1 (such combination!, don't you think so?...:-), and started the upgrading RPM by RPM. At end, a new Fedora Core 1 started without major problems, and upon reswitching to KDE, all important personal adjustements were mantained. I'm not and I was not using Gnome, but the installer forgot this. The menues structure and general appearance is, in fact, very similer to Red Hat 8 (first on using Bluecurve). Perhaps since Red Hat 7.x could be more tricky, my remembers of Seawolf (7.1, previously at 8 installed in one machine) were that they had too different tastes. No headaches, no problems. All seems to work fine upon two o three minor changes in some conf files, even "exotic" hardware as IrDA, motherboard based video cards.....DVD, CD-RW, plus IrDA on laptop, all working on same basis. Ximian Evolution mantained the mail that were preexisting and mail accounts.... ¿Minor changes? Samba shares (NFS works exactly equal, despite the graphical interface, or identical on text configuration), plugins for Mozilla (they must be relinked or moved to the new mozilla-1.4 directory, using appropiate Java compilled against gcc-3.2), install rhgb for graphical startup, rearrange of OpenOffice (it protest if an old .openoffice user folder exist and refuses then install correctly), and some sort more than I can't remember now. Nothing terrorifical...:-) In fact, the support for Spanish in FC1 is better than I expected. More man pages and applications in Spanish, and no UTF-8 clutches and extrange symbols as I found in RHL8. Globally, I'm impressed...:-) But be sure to backup all your important data, conf files, files on /etc related to partitions, configurations, etc. Each upgrade could be (sure it is) one world apart, and if you encounter the worst of them.... There are a sentence that affirms that in computation, if any software works well, you may not change it.....but I think that's not the correct way to support and to assure the future of this proyect. Another words to pray if you use your Linux boxes on the self related "production environment". But if you have at least two, one could be a perfect laboratory subject....:-) -- Greetings/Saludos, Aurelio Sánchez fae7901 circling terra Spain Registered Linux User # 272846 GNU Privacy Guard Public Key available at pgp.rediris.es Created by Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 running on Fedora Core 1 -- Saludos, Aurelio Sánchez fae7901 circling terra Spain Registered Linux User # 272846 GNU Privacy Guard Public Key available at pgp.rediris.es Created by Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 running on Fedora Core 1
