HI I have FC12 and am thinking of going to FC13. Will I have the same options? I was thinking FC13 would overlay FC12 making it FC13... Is that not going to happen.?? With the same partitions.. FC 12 is ONLY thing on drive.. TIA. Marvin On 6/9/10, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 00:52 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 05:48:18 +0000, >> vijay bhide <bhidevb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > I downloaded Fedora 13 preupgrade which is my /boot directory of my >> > existing Fedora 8 installation.I booted to preupgrade image to start >> > upgrade.I reached a stage where 4installation options were offered.One >> > was to remove completely existing installations ,second was removing >> > existing linux installatios,third was to compress existing Ubuntu 10.04 >> > and the last one was to install on free space.In all the options I was >> > prompted to create boot partition of 500MB.In my existing system I have >> > Win XP on sda1 Mandriva on sda 5,Swap on sda 7,Fedora8 on sda 8 and >> > Data(Fat) on sda 6,Ubuntu 9.1 on sda9,Ubuntu 10.04 on sda10.Grub is on >> > MBR.and no boot partition. >> >> You aren't going to be able to go directly from Fedora 8 to Fedora 13 >> (without >> a LOT of pain). >> >> You are probably better off saving your data and your config and then >> doing >> a fresh install. > > Why do you say this ? > > I'd like to see him back up his data and try. He really has nothing to > lose. If it doesn't work he can wipe the drive and do a fresh install. > > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
