Bill Davidsen wrote:
Preupgrade used to be quite limited in capability, and restricted to a single
version upgrade at a time. I have some systems I would rather not upgrade by
hand if possible, but they need to go from fc13 to fc17, and I'm sure doing it
insteps would take more effort on my part than a single step and some fixup. I
noted that preupgrade offers to try to go to to fc17 in a single step, but it's
not obvious if it's kidding me or itself.
Downtime should be minimized, so it's worth at least considering. Any experience?
The bottom line appears to be 13->15->17, at most two versions at a time. And
it's going to be really ugly, because GNOME went away, or at any rate the name
was jacked up and something utterly different put in, so I will have to migrate
users to the nearest thing, XFCE.
I think the easy way is to drop in an SSD for root and clean install, then
recustomize and mount the pieces. Maybe plug in a spare 8TB RAID on the eSATA
and take another backup, I have two remote backups, but restoring over Gbit
network will take way too long if I must.
Thanks for the pointers, it would appear that changing the network device names
and putting something totally different in while still calling it GNOME is going
to make the upgrade, or any automated upgrade past the changes, challenging on
anything more than a simple desktop.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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