On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 16:56 -0700, Paul Lemmons wrote: > I would like to upgrade to FC5 when it comes out but need to be > cautious about it. I run FC4 as my primary desktop and would really > like to test the upgrade before doing it for real. I daily use vmware > to run Windows for those pesky apps that I just have to have in the > corporate environment. I have used it also to play with rawhide. > > To test the upgrade to FC5 I would like to copy my current > "production" desktop environment to a vmware session and test the > upgrade there. Does anybody know if this is possible? And while I am > asking, does anybody have an opinion as to whether or not this is a > good idea? > -- Yes and Yes. It is always a good idea to test upgrades in a sandbox if you can. Download a copy of Tom's bootdisk from http://www.toms.net/rb, use this as a floppy image to boot a virtual machine and then follow the instructions at http://www.rajeevnet.com/hacks_hints/os_clone/os_cloning.html Once you have upgraded head on over to the wiki and read http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JefSpaleta/TestingManifesto to get an idea of how to deal with any bugs you find.
