Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Andrew Farris wrote: [...] > >> Upgrade to next Fedora. Gets easier each time around. A bit of foresight > >> when installing originally helps much here. > > Precisely. The update or upgrades are essentially very simple to > > handle when you've got a sane partitioning scheme setup. > I _really_ have to believe that you haven't run fedora over any span > of time across a variety of hardware I'm running Red Hat since Red Hat 3 or so, and then Fedora from 1. On an rather wide variety of machines (Alpha, SPARC and SPARC64, i386 to i686, x86_64, single/double/8x processor, ...). All the way as machines in a computer lab, day-to-day workstation, and servers. And yes, upgrading used to be a pain, but is is getting easier all the time. > with an assortment of additional > software installed. That I learned not to do in the RH 4-5 timeframe, especially not "self compiled from source". What limited stuff I have locally is packaged as self-built RPMs that I can update easily. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
