Todd Simi wrote:
Hi,
Is there an method of upgrade from RedHat 7.2 to FC5 that won't
require a backup and selective restore after completely overwriting
the OS that's on it right now?
Thanks
Todd
Hi Todd.
As others have stated, it is much better to do a clean install. I tried
the route from RH8 to FC2 and I had issues for almost a year. Finally
did a clean install for FC4. Things ran much better.
Some applications have had name changes so these wouldn't be updated
leaving you a whole mess of files and applications to sort out in the
end. I would spend one or two days a month just going through files and
links for stuff left over from the RH8 install.
I also found that I had to clean out the ~users directories for things
that had changed between the versions. I had created a dummy users and
copied the default files into the /home/users directories.
Good luck.
I now have a seperate partition for new installs on my boot HD.
--
Robin Laing
