Re: Help! fc2->fc5

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"Lamont R. Peterson" <lamont@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Friday 05 May 2006 03:11am, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> Leon wrote:
>> > You will be better off doing a clean install. There are issues even
>> > upgrade from FC4.
>>
>> What are the issues? I upgraded two machines (using yum upgrade) from
>> FC4 without trouble. I'd like to upgrade our server next (reinstallation
>> is not an option) and would like to avoid any known issues.
>
> Then you need to upgrade from FC2 -> FC3 -> FC4 -> FC5.
>
> Also, don't do "yum upgrade", use anaconda, booting from a CD instead.  Using 
> "yum upgrade" there are 20 some odd "corner cases" and such that are not 
> handled (things about the changes between FC4 -> FC5.  Anaconda knows these 
> things and gets things right.
>
> I had excellent results upgrading my FC4 notebook to FC5 using Anaconda.

Good to know. I haven't tried Anaconda upgrade before.

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> Lamont R. Peterson <lamont@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Leon

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