Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 11/03/2012 10:07 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
The bottom line appears to be 13->15->17, at most two versions at a
time.
I don't know of any reason you can't go from 13->16. Going directly to 17 is
only problematic because of the /usr merge, since anaconda needs to handle that.
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.
The nearest thing is probably Cinnamon, which is available in F17. Cinnamon is
an alternative GNOME shell, which mostly resembles GNOME 2. That said, I don't
think there's anything specifically wrong with the GNOME Shell. My mom uses
it. A number of my friends use it. I use it. Only a few people that I know
specifically don't like it.
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.
Yes, clean installs are going to be the most reliable installation method, and
backups are always recommended.
Restores are hard, very long time to do one.
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.
The network device name is also optional. If you boot with the kernel arg
"biosdevname=0", you won't get that behavior.
I changed it in the config file, but I wish the fix to base name on MAC was
included in the distro as an option, since that's useful on servers where board
location might not be constant.
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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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