Re: Best way to upgrade from FC5 to FC8

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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


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