-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/05/12 21:44, Max Pyziur wrote: > Hoping to at least be on the trailing edge, I've started an > upgrade process on my Dell Laptop Inspiron 600m. > > It is currently running F15, and I'd like to upgrade to F16. > > However, after going through the usual preliminaries (select time, > keyboard, language), then Basic Storage devices, hostname, root > password, I'm given a choice to: Use All Space Replace Existing > Linux Shrink Current System Use Free Space Create Custom Layout > > Each one of these indicates that "this option will remove date from > the selected devices. Make sure you have backups" > > What happened to "Upgrade an existing system" as seen on this > Fedora 16 documentation page: > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Installation_Guide/sn-upgrading-system-x86.html > > > > Plus all of the other choices: "Use LVM" (I assume that I don't > need this for a basic laptop) "Encrypt system" (suggestions?) > "Review and modify partitioning layout" (definitely, before > everything gets possibly wiped) > > And I have done a full data backup. I personally upgraded from 15 -> 16 using preupgrade & it worked flawlessly apart from it hung for about twenty minutes at the selinux-policy stage but it eventually carried on & in the end I had a F16 system with everything working fine. Cheers, Phil... - -- currently (ab)using Debian Squeeze, Fedora Verne, OS X Snow Leopard, Ubuntu Oneiric -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPrtVLAAoJECPmYW6gk8JjDgsH/0XAYVmrHAyIpt/d8hnX1OwC UfV8ow2ExtAnY1KZufsCoXWGaqu012K0GL5N5fZudG7AtySyZ0MKQP+XrJAmfP1D LOsc6z4vSvayoIJlOYDkI6I/svCsduqPxWIjr1h1ew9T+QyGggBYmFO8wuwsrxIE rkqnqyz0cB1NtgMZH4nOXMSxsf34fn+c/6WwCYc35ha+bawWybyxUzDpnF9DXsgW xmdUqZIVZmedNRUN9TxuDEfpuOvF6UkVgbMkstpEmm1YrTJ2v22f32OYiYUIbwtG xffFnJ9xD1OGl2EPsa2Zg5WEJQz6GbeV6DmYz3+M+RBrGEv6O4YffAAtI2VacHk= =eJfn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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
