Joachim Backes wrote: > having the following question: sometimes it happens that after an > upgrade of a Fedora-x to a Fedora-y, the Fedora-y does not run correctly > (there may be a lot of reasons for this...). So going back to a running > system, but how to achieve this? > > So my question (or proposal): it would be very helpful if an upgrade > could be done to a new partition (including copying all imporant files > from the Fedora to be updated). This would save oneself a lot of backups > and restores. I always do exactly that. Nb I keep separate /home and /boot partitions, which I don't format when upgrading. (I choose the Custom Upgrade choice, not the disastrously bad default which re-partitions your machine.) I found remarkably little needed to be changed after this when upgrading from Fedora-13 to Fedora-14. Most of the relevant config files are kept in one's home directory. As you say, this should be a standard part of Fedora, since nearly everyone nowadays has enough space for two Fedora systems on different partitions. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
