On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 09:18 -0400, John Swartzentruber wrote: > On 5/1/2006 6:02 PM Philip Prindeville wrote: > > I have a system that was installed as FC3, and has been extensively > > reconfigured (added outside repos, etc) and did some source-level > > builds and installs. > > > > I'm hoping to find a path to upgrade to FC5, rather than having to > > note all my config changes, save all my data, install, reconfigure, > > and then restore my data. > > > > Can this be done? > > I can't answer your question, but I'm planning to try the same thing > later this month. I (and I'm sure a lot of other people) would really > like to hear a report about how things go for you if you try it. I did that just from the CDs. It worked fine apart for a small problem at login screen where an image is not found (if I remember correctly as the machine is not here with me). I did not try to solve it, but I think it should be quite easy. The machine was full with plenty of various extra rpms (from extras, livna and a few local ones that are needed to adapt Fedora to our local environment) and was basically managed with yum. Then, some colleagues of mine here had troubles (but I think that was more because of a synaptic/yum conflict). So the best advice I can give is, make a backup first: I know, this is obvious, but just in case :-) Theo.
