On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 19:53 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Well, I gues I've been lucky then, upgrading from one release to another, > for 13+ years, with multiple machines containing wide varities of hardware. You've been just plain lucky. Upgrading FC5 to FC6 blew up something in UDEV which was never resolved. I had to wait minutes for it to get past the error before it would proceed to finish booting. Several others reported the same problem. A full install resolved that. I've never attempted it again, and never had anymore problems now that I have all the interesting bits backed up. I keep projects in the /opt directory as much as possible for a swift backup and restore. Myself, I wouldn't advise upgrading without plenty of caveats to the OP. Especially if they don't have the expertise to repair what may become broken. They may take your advice literally and get lazy on the backup routine. Plus, a full install takes less time to accomplish and will be much cleaner. My personal two cents, Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
