been using Red Hat since 4.0 and i've never known Red Hat to do a seamless upgrade. i was just hoping maybe Fedora had resolved some of those issues. oh well - i'll just a fresh install. thanks anyway.... On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 16:12, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Do, den 11.11.2004 schrieb M Daniel R M um 21:37: > > > Sure. It must be that. > > If I had asked a single -not multiple- question, maybe some people would > > have answered. > > I'll try to "RTFM" oopps! Sorry, this time there is no manual ... > > The answer you hope for simply can't be given seriously. If you want a > short answer: don't try to upgrade from FC1 to FC3. If you want the long > version: read the list posting from over the last days. There were > people upgrading from FC2 and had problems. Read the list archive when > many upgraded to the fresh FC2 from previous FC1 and see the problems > they had. The step FC1 -> FC3 has both hurdles. In addition read the > release notes for FC2 and FC3 - yes, that is the manual for RTFM - and > understand the specific notes about the changes from the previous > release. > > If you are a Linux/Fedora freshman then do a fresh install. If you have > quite some experience and are able to debug things for most parts > yourself, then with a full backup in background you might risk an > upgrade and fix non working things afterwards. In worst case the new > system will not boot and you will have to work with the rescue mode. > > Alexander -- jack wallen, jr - I wanna be on the edge. Some people aren't on the edge. They're right on the lid.