If you want a > short answer: don't try to upgrade from FC1 to FC3. (took from another thread) El jue, 11-11-2004 a las 03:11, M Daniel R M escribió: > My box is currently running FC1 with a tailored 2.4.27 kernel. A home > user desktop. > I've never done an distro-upgrade between "fedoras" (or any Linux > release...) > The best way would be ... (I already have the four CD's waiting for): > either a clean installation or maybe a leaded one by the Anaconda > installer upon the FC1 partitions BUT "upgrading"? > > What does it implies exactly?: > > -First, to backup my whole /home partition to another place? Probably > the answer here is "yes".. > -It is possible to do that(FC1-->FC3) without stepping through FC2? It > seems really very hard to add "the news" belonging to FC2 (renewed > X-server, etc.) AND "the news" from FC3 too. I hope that the system > doesn't end up messing up all. More, ALSA sound is currently working; > I'm afraid that results of many efforts will last during a brief time... > -Does it would happen anything if you don't have running an nptl > kernel? I suppose it wouldn't. I mean..., would the upgrade be possible? > -Also, I suppose I'd automatically loose some functionalities like > webcam captures (due to pwc and pwcx modules in my case...---Thank you > Alexander D. for that great links----) or ATI driver functionalities. > -All those packages that once I installed from sources (tarballs) as > they are not rpm's, are going to be lost? > -Does it would make much sense to back up places like /usr/local, > /usr/share where usually lives that sort of packages? I suspect that it > wouldn't, because that binaries were built for an existing, concrete > configuration; please, correct me if I am wrong, I am a shyly newbie. > -Does it make any sense to backup the entire /etc directory since there > would be there many files (as the XFree86 ones) that already doesn't > exist in FC2? Would be a better idea to do a back up from some important > files located there like fstab, modules.conf, etc. > -Is it possible to change the repositories where yum and apt are > pointing to? -without messing up things- That is, most of the packages > and updates I get/did with FC1 were from a "group" of repositories that > are compatibles between them, and I'd like to try now the another > "group" -not an special, particular reason...- > -Am I missing something important that needs to be born in mind? > > > > P.S. I've read the > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html > > > Regards, > > Daniel Rodríguez > >
