On 09/08/2012 11:36 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
The Fedora DVD upgrade is not very good to put it politely and gets
steadily worse release by release. The installer is pretty robust, but
the update stuff not so.
A better bet is to make a backup and then carefully read the instructions
on updating via yum. Follow all the steps listed in order. 16 to 17 is
the most complicated one of the lot because of the changes to the file
system layout.
The yum update isn't "supported" but works far better than the DVD one.
Given the state of the updater it's not clear what "supported" means in
that context anyway 8(
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum
Alan
Thank you Alan.
I will wait for fc18 in the hopes it will do a better job of upgrading
from 16 to 18.
The yum route, due to the time it takes to download everything, and the
tenuous
nature of the electric service and the network provider's "instability",
seems to
cause me other issues.
Cheers,
JD
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