Gerry Tool wrote:
Mark Haney wrote:
On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 10:19 -0800, Joshua Andrews wrote:I did both a fresh install and an upgrade of a completely up-to-date FC2 system. The fresh install seems perfect. The upgrade managed to lose track of the CD devices in K3b. It also didn't update my yum configuration file, so when I tried to use yum, nothing happened until I copied the configuration file from the fresh install. OpenOffice.org worked fine on both systems.
I am running FC2 but would like to upgrade to FC3.
I don't have an extra PC or hard disk for a fresh install of FC3 so this will have to be a direct upgrade to FC2 on a multi-boot system.
Of course I will backup my /home directory but I want to know if there are issues to be aware of especially with regard to other OS's (win2k, RH9), that are already on the system.
Thanks, Joshua
I am in the same boat as you, I just upgrade this laptop of mine to FC3 from FC2 without any problems particularly. The only issue I had was OpenOffice apps not opening, but that was due to a lib not being installed/upgraded during the upgrade. Besides that it was smooth sailing.
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The great thing about the update was that it migrated all my evolution files from version 1.4 to version 2.0. I was then able to copy the .evolution folder from the updated system to the fresh install and migrate all of my e-mail to the fresh install. At this point I'm going to retire the updated system and use the fresh install. (System here means a different partition with an install, all on the same hardware.)
Gerry
Thanks for the input.
I went ahead and just did it. I had forgotten how long it can take to do an upgrade.
Anyway, everything seems to have gone fine --I haven't actually tried to boot the other OS's yet because up2date is running already and it's taking a long time, (lots of updates!).
One thing that was strange is the installer kept saying it couldn't read from the CD, I found that just taking it out and putting it back in, or putting in my CD-RW, fixed the problem --probably just my flaky old hardware tho.
Cheers, Joshua
