> On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 00:17 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: >> On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 15:32 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: >> > On Wed, 07 May 2008 15:52:16 +0200 >> > Mathieu Kretchner <mathieu.kretchner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > > Hello all, >> > > >> > > I would like to upgrade my home computer with fc9 from fc6 and I >> > > wondering if there is no problem to do the gap ? >> > >> > There shouldn't be. There are boxes I look after that started on RH >> 7.x >> > and are now on FC8. If you are worried then run the upgrades through >> FC7 >> > and FC8 first >> >> Yeah, let us know how it goes. Myself, I'd backup everything first. You >> just might be looking at a full install if it blows up ...which could >> very well happen, IMHO. As a matter of practice, I only do full installs >> from my past experience. :) Ric >> - > Despite what Alan Cox recommended I think the consensus is that the > chances of safely upgrading a fedora version are slim. That is what > people like so much about Ubuntu. One updates over the web without an > install disk and it works. In fedora for example we have other repos we > load from. I replaced totem with totem-xine from livna. It is hard to > believe an upgrade would handle this easily. The same with my mplayer > from livna and RealPlayer from their web site. > > Now Alan Cox I will admit is more knowledgeable about Fedora than I am. > So if anyone can pull this upgrade off he can. But notice even he > slipped in the advice not to upgrade directly from FC6 to f9 but go one > version at a time. To be clear, he indicated that if the OP was leary of the direct upgrade approach, to go version by version. I recently performed a Yum upgrade from FC6 to F8, with only my desktop settings getting munged a bit, in the process. I'm preparing to do the same with my family server, from FC5 to F8. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit: https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update or send a blank email message to: site-update-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
