Re: Question on upgrading from FC6

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Neil Cherry wrote:
Antonio M wrote:
2008/3/19, Neil Cherry <ncherry@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
I have a server that's running FC6 and I'd like to run the latest
 and greatest. I have quite a complex system as it's my home's
 central server (home automation, DNS, printing, etc.). I'm under
 the assumption that I'll need to upgrade it to Fedora 7 (I have
 the iso) and then Fedora 8 (I have the iso). Are there any
 warnings, other than backing up everything?

 In case you're wondering I'm preparing the system for IPV6 as I
 need to learn IPV6 for work and having it is the best way to
 learn it.

I am not sure that the original DVD of F8 will allow upgrade of an
existing system (Please check if there is a bug), I remember that
system froze during upgrading and I installed F8 from scratch.

Please check....

Thanks, that's why I posted here first. :-) I'll check that
out as it would be a real pain to have to reinstall. I have
a lot of custom things such as my MTA setup. I'm also using
djb's dns software and I'd hate to have to rebuild everything
at this moment though I may move to dnsmasq in the future.


From the ongoing discussion about upgrades, any locally created applications may have to be rebuilt anyways due to changes in libraries and the base system.

I have come across different configuration files between versions and when I moved from FC6 to F8 at work, I ended up with some weird problems that were associated to changes in F8 that required the IT staff to change my account around. The changes were good but just caused headaches.

I have seen some update directly from F6 to F8 but their system was quite basic. No LVM's or partitions to worry about. All partitions were labeled.

If you use third source repositories, you could end up with more headaches doing an upgrade.


Backup your data and configuration files and then try. The worst is you have to do a clean install after trying.
--
Robin Laing

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