Michael Hennebry wrote: > As my current installation is EOL, > there are things I would like to know before trying to install F16. > For me, installation has always been a struggle. > I approach new requirements with increased fear and trepidation. > I don't do upgrades. > It seems to me that an upgrade must be more complicated than > a straight install and I have enough trouble with that. I agree. In particular, following the preupgrade method is a recipe for disaster. But I think there is a third course, which is to install the new system on a different partition, keeping the old one as it is. In my experience there is a non-negligible probability, probably around 25%, that the new installation will not work, perhaps for some reason concerned with one's particular hardware. It makes life much easier if you have a working system to fall back on. There are some minor problems in this, in particular the new user UIDs (starting at 1000) in Fedora-16. But this is not too difficult to deal with, in various ways. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
