On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 07:25:55PM +0000, Beartooth wrote: > > I've come into possession of an otherwise nice machine (so I'm > told; I don't speak hardware) that still has Fedora Core 5 installed. I > want to upgrade it to F8 now, and F10 once that's released. > > Is there a best way to go about it, short of a fresh install of > F8? It has a lot of data, as well as a lot of configuration, that I'd > hate to lose. > > Any gotchas to watch out for? > > If, say, I upgrade first to F7 (because I know where my DVD for > that is), and then to F8 -- do I want to update F7 as best I can in > between? Or just go straight to F8? > Since this machine is new to you and old to someone else the obvious question is what needs to be preserved? If you wish to preserve stuff then do CD/DVD upgrades one at a time. In general a 5 to 6 upgrade works because 6 was tested in exactly this update case. Same for 6 to 7, 7 to 8 etc.... If this is now your machine and there is no need to preserve anyting it is often best to just do a fresh install. The advantage of a fresh install is that you do not have to work through a bazillion *rpmnew and other historic config files. And, If I recall the default partition sizes way back in Fedora 2,3,4 times were too small for modern Fedora... A clean install will get you partition sizes (including swap) that make sense today. With updates, one important command to know is "yum list extras". -- T o m M i t c h e l l Found me a new hat, now what? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
