On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 11:18 -0800, Patrick Horgan wrote: > I'm running Red Hat on my laptop and want to switch to Fedora. Can it > be done as an update, or would I have to install over and existing > installation and lose the stuff I have in my partitions? (Big pain in > the butt but at least I could come up with a smarter partitioning scheme > than I have;) You don't say Red Hat what - RH7.x, RH8.0, RH9, RHEL3 (but that's perhaps not highly relevant) nor what kind of upgrade yum (if an option on your unspecified version) or anaconda. I did upgrade from RH7.3 to RH8.0 to RH9 to FC1 to FC2, then FC3 (over time as updates came out) on my laptop without undue pain. Everything except FC2->FC3 was done with anaconda, the last via yum due to issues with my laptop and the FC3 installer kernel. For direct RH whatever to FC3 your best chance for success would be an anaconda upgrade - probably requires "upgradeany" parameter IIRC. Any attempt to upgrade with yum would require the stepwise approach suggested by another poster. (See below.) http://lists.freshrpms.net/pipermail/freshrpms-list/2004-November/011423.html http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/misc/fc1-fc2-yum-hints.txt http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/misc/fc2-fc3-update-with-yum.txt http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-November/msg06636.html http://lists.caosity.org/pipermail/centos/2005-March/003400.html A clean install is nearly always preferable, but migrating data can be a pain (thus my laptop upgrades). Of course, back up first whatever you do. Another suggestion, budget permitting, you might consider a new hard disk and an inexpensive external USB enclosure for your old drive. Provides a full backup and access to your old stuff to aid migration after a nice fresh start, plus the probable benefits of a larger/faster hard disk. Phil
