On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 13:49 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> fredex wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have a laptop I use only sporadically that still has FC5 on it.
> >
> > Is it reasonable to upgrade directly to F7, or should I do it in
> > two steps fc5==>fc6==>f7 ?
I don't think there's much difference, if you decide to go that way.
The most important thing to watch out for is that names of IDE devices
changed in F7.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> My thoughts are that you want to save /home from that FC5 but what
> else?
/usr/local and/or /opt if you installed anything there. /root, if you
have anything permanent there. /srv if you use it.
Good idea to have a backup of /etc so you can crib from your old config
files. Some (but not all) directories in /var have data that is not
just transient system status stuff: /var/www, /var/mail/
various /var/lib/* (amanda, mailman, mysql, tomcat, etc., if you use any
of those packages), etc.
> So I question whether you want to upgrade or just save /home and
> load F7 respin and then replace the new /home with the old one. The guys
> on this list talked me into this good idea.
>
>
>
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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