On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 14:02 +0300, Sundeep Pundamale wrote: > Matthew Miller wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 01:36:54PM +0300, Sundeep Pundamale wrote: > >> Can some one provide instructions to upgrade fedora 6 to fedora 9. What are > >> the precautions that needs to be taken so as to not break the system and > >> existing configurations. > > > > Here's how I'd think about it: how would you get the system configuration > > and data back if the hard drive failed? At this level of update, you're > > probably best doing a clean install and then recreating your existing > > configuration. (Easiest to do if you have /home on a separate partition.) > > > > Thats the constraint i have. The linux box has apache, php, mysql,svn, > openfire, openvpn, samba and many more applications running. Doing a > fresh installation and reconfiguring all these applications would be a > very time consuming task. Is there some other alternative that is more > feasible rather than a fresh installation. > > Thanks > If you do a fresh install and save the /home , and /etc directories before install most of the configuration files will be retained and can be copied to the new installation. -- ======================================================================= We come to bury DOS, not to praise it. (Paul Vojta, vojta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, paraphrasing a quote of Shakespeare) ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
