On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:49:35AM -0800, Mark wrote: > Can somebody tell me what exactly will happen when I "upgrade an existing > system" to a new release? > In this particular case, it would be FC3 to FC5 or FC6. > Will it just upgrade to newer versions of currently installed RPMs, or > will there be more complex changes? Mostly just newer versions of packages, however, complex changes *can* happen. For example, anaconda will migrate lvm1 to lvm2. > How big is the risk of something going wrong during the upgrade and my > system being (partially) broken - assuming that I have a pretty "standard" > server installation (text-mode only, no X11)? Not too risky. > Also, can I do a direct upgrade 3->5 or 6 or should I do 3->4->5->6? Every step will add cruft; I think you might as well go all the way. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
