2008/3/4 Cassian Luppu <cassian.luppu@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
>
> 2008/3/4, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 14:11 +0100, Cassian Luppu wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I´m using FC5 in one of my desktop computers. Yes, I do know it is
> > > pretty old-fashioned, and I´m about to upgrade to FC8.
> >
> >
> > It's F8 actually. The "core" terminology was dropped after FC6.
>
> Ups, yeah, I always forget that one :)
>
>
> > > I just wanted to ask you guys what is the best way to get it running
> > > with the less problems possible, I know I´ll have to face some of
> > > then.
> > >
> > > I guess that setting up the FC8 repositories and yum upgrade wouldn´t
> > > be the best way, would it?
> >
> >
> > I'd advise against it. Fedora is not guaranteed to work even doing an
> > upgrade from one version to the next (I've done it but frequently I find
> > myself doing a fresh install after a while).
>
>
>
> Exactly, I did knew that, I just one a confirmation :-)
>
>
> > It's almost certainly
> > easier to back up your user data (/home, /etc, /usr/local, ...) and
> > install from scratch. Take a list of your RPMs as well ('rpm -qa --last
> > > LIST') just in case.
> > poc
>
>
> The problem here is that the /home/user I want to keep is 16GB, so it's
> going to be a pain to trasnfer it. I blame myself for not creating the
> partion when I installed the system
>
> Any other advice?
> Thank you very very much
> C
I had a similar problem and got around it by doing this:
1. Booting to the rescue disk
2. Chroot-ing to the root of my installation.
3. Making a backup directory off the root and moving everything I want
to keep into it. (/home,/var,/etc)
4. Deleting everything else I could (not everything is a real file) a
la 'rm -rf'
5. Reboot loading the normal install and choosing to preserve my
current partitions.
6. Copying as needed out of /backup after install.
Worked like a charm for me but YMMV.
Richard
