On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Beartooth <beartooth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have an F14 PC on which I'm currently running F15/xfce from a > live medium. Having had too little coffee, I tried (as root) telling it > "yum update." > > It did it, or was about to. It got all the way to its "Is this > all right" question -- whereupon it was going to install fifteen things > and update four hundred-odd. > > Would it have gone all the way? Would I then have an F15/xfce > machine, as if I had done preupgrade, with all my data still present? And > would that have been able to run preupgrade and get me to F16 when F16 is > released?? If you didn't mount your F14 partition and chroot into it, it would only update the F15 live session in memory and would be lost on shutdown unless you added a persistent overlay when you setup your live image (you didn't mention if it was live cd or live USB based). > The machine in question is pretty well backed up; so I'm willing > to try the experiment, IF the knowledgeable think the odds are good, or > it would produce useful knowledge, or both. Seeing as (with the above assumptions) all the updates will be lost on shutdown, probably not worth it. Richard -- 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
