> On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 10:20:44 -0400 "Jeffrey Ross" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I'm looking for some suggestions on how to upgrade an older Fedora >> system >> and keep as many of the configurations as possible for the applications >> that are being used. > > The recommendation is to go through successive upgrades one after the > other. However, I am very doubtful that one of these will not break. I > seem to recall that F18 or F19 was the one which broke upgrades (I think > it was F19). I'm aware of the recommendation to go through successive releases, the problem is I can't even get to Fedora 17 because / and /usr are split into two different file systems. > >> Currently the system is running Fedora 16 and there are at least two >> things that are preventing me from successfully running fedup or the yum >> upgrade. >> >> The first stumbling block is that system was installed with separate >> partitions for /, /boot, /var, & /usr and I think that the separation of >> / and /usr is my biggest issue. > > I don't see why this should be an issue in a clean install. Are you > wanting to keep /usr because you installed programs here? You may consider > moving files that you created to a separate directory inside your home > partition and then pushing it back. One possibility is to partition the > current /usr and then move the programs to that new partition and keep > that one in a new install. > I would rather avoid a clean install if at all possible, of course I may not have a choice if I want to upgrade. The current recommendation (requirement?) is that / and /usr be the same partition, I'm pretty sure the problem with /usr being its own partition is the location of /usr/sbin and /usr/bin both of which aren't mounted when the upgrade is attempted. I came from the real old school where everything had its own partition, today this isn't the best way to do things and now I have a "broken" system when it comes to upgrading. >> The second issue is the system is setup with RAID1 on all partitions with >> the bootloader (Grub ?) installed on both disks in the event of a disk failure. > > I am not sure how RAID0 figures into this equation: I have not much > knowledge of this, sorry. I think there were some issues with using RAID on the boot partition but I'm not positive. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
