On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 09:52 -0600, Don Dupy wrote: > Has anyone done an upgrade from FC1 > FC3 ? > I am wanting to upgrade, but I an afraid with FC2 in the middle > that might not be a good idea. > Would I be better off backing up everything and doing a fresh install? > > thanks > > -- > Don Dupy > > FC1 - Kernel 2.4.22 - Dell Poweredge 600SC > http://www.maxxrad.net > email: fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx > Don, I upgraded my test machine from FC2 to FC3 and everything went fine, except complete installation of Gnome. Gnome wouldn't work so I did a yum install gnome* and then everything worked fine. So I repeated the process on my production machine and had the same results. So another yum install gnome* fixed that too. But then after about 5 or 6 days, it started running slower, then it just crashed. During the boot nothing could be mounted /etc/fstab was corrupted and it dumped me into a repair console but everything was read only and such. I booted to Knoppix and made a backup of my Evolution ( everything else was still current in my backup before the upgrade ). And reformatted and installed FC3 fresh. I have noticed a considerable performance increase in the fresh FC3 install vs the upgrade. I would recommend spending the time to backup and reformat. FWIW Best, Steve
