On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:38:43 -0500 (EST) fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> hi i have FC 2 installed on my desktop > can i install FC3 over it? keeping the existing partitions?
Yes. You can upgrade during the install as an option. This will keep your partitions intact. Do an upgrade. Not a fresh install.
You can also do it with a fresh install.
Use the manual partition - you can look at each partition, the label will show, and you define your mount points and what gets formatted.
For example - I format / and /boot but do not format /home and /iso (/ iso is where I keep iso's for several distributions ...)
I do have to do a little extra work this way, as I need to migrate my passwd/group/shadow file (SAVE THEM before install), and recreate the / var/spool/mail mbox's for existing users, but I get a clean slate from which I can yum install the apps I need, yet my user preferences and files are all kept intact.
Before I do such an update - I also make rpm querries to specific repositories - ie
rpm -qa |grep "\.fdr\." > rpms.fedora.us rpm -qa |grep "\.lvn\." > rpms.livna.org
etc.
That helps me easily yum install fresh versions of what I use post new install.
