On 12/11/2010 08:58 AM, Kam Leo wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Joachim Backes > <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> > wrote: > > Hi, > > having the following question: sometimes it happens that after an > upgrade of a Fedora-x to a Fedora-y, the Fedora-y does not run correctly > (there may be a lot of reasons for this...). So going back to a running > system, but how to achieve this? > > So my question (or proposal): it would be very helpful if an upgrade > could be done to a new partition (including copying all imporant files > from the Fedora to be updated). This would save oneself a lot of backups > and restores. > > Is the current anaconda able to fulfill such things? > > Kind regards > > > What important files? For example config files in /etc, or rpms for which no upgrade is available,... > > If you got the drive space just do the install to the new partition(s) > and copy your "important" data from the old distro to the new. That's exactly the problem. I'm working very long (since years) with fedora (and RedHat), but I really don't know all files which are important for a running fedora. Kind regards -- Joachim Backes <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes
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