On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:14:36 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 20:15 +0000, Beartooth wrote: >> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:57:16 -0700, Craig White wrote: >> >> > On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 17:47 +0000, Beartooth wrote: >> >> **Major Question** : >> >> >> >> Now that the upgrade FC5 => FC6 has succeeded, with no apparent >> >> losses, do I want to run yum update, or proceed directly to F7?? >> > ---- >> > just upgrade - don't update interim versions. I hope that you read >> > the wiki FAQ link I gave you earlier. >> >> Well, I saw that it was warning me heavily against doing it with >> yum, and I didn't propose that. And it seemed to be all about that. >> >> Thanks to your reminder, I took another look. But I soon hit >> places where I was unable either to read or to copy commands -- despite >> trying both Firefox and Opera. >> >> So I dug out my old F7 Respin DVD -- and hit an odd problem. This >> machine for some reason is reluctant to admit it sees my external USB >> CD/ DVD drive. If you poke around, you find a place where it gives its >> name, but no more. >> >> I got it to see it long enough to transfer some data in, but not >> on boot, by first logging in as root. I guess I'll have to try that >> again. > ---- > I was thinking more along the lines that Fedora 7 labels ATA/IDE hard > drives as SCSI devices which changes the drive letter designations from > /dev/hda to /dev/sda et. al. That I'm quite familiar with, and looked hard for any /sd anything, in or out of /dev, /media, or anywhere else. I started another thread "upgrade from hard drive", since that seems the most hopeful. Ideally, of course, I'd DBAN the whole thing, and do a fresh install of F8 or even F9. But I don't want to take any chances with those archives till I know they're up and available on the new site, and the machine belongs to me -- just in case. Otoh, I'm not a pro and wouldn't be competent to run the defenses the last guy must have had, even if I had them. (I do have both hard- and software firewalls, including a router, iptables, denyhosts, and others; but once cracked, I'd have no idea how to defeat, repair, & restore.) So I want badly to upgrade to a point where I'll get security updates. -- Beartooth Squirreler, Wordcrafty Staffwright Not Quite Clueless Fedora Power User I have little idea (precious little!) what I'm talking of. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
