On Sat Mar 25, 2006 11:59AM, David Timms wrote: > Dan Thurman wrote: > >On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 05:04 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >>On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 15:30 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote: > >>>Folks, > >>> > >>>I was a but busy and I am currently in a FC5 T3 setup, so > >>>my question is, do I just stay in this environment, and > >>>simply 'yum update' to get into the FC6 level or do I have > >>>to burn any iso's and reinstall everything or what? > >>It's generally a good idea to do a reinstallation. If you simply run yum > >>update, you end up with pre-FC6 rawhide which is now boiling hot. That > >>you only want to do if you would prefer to continue testing. > There are days in testing where an update requires 500M of downloads, and then something needs a new release and it happens again the next day. You might rather your PC was a useful tool rather > than forever downloading new packages. > > My advice: download FC5 and install. If you have separate partitions for / and /home, note down the partition information (to use during install) and ensure all the things you want to keep are > under /home . > > Then reboot in single user mode, and mv /home/your-user-name to /home/name-old or similar. > > Reboot with CD/dvd for install, and ensure you choose custom partitioning. You then need to tell the installer which partition to use as which: > /boot +format > / +format > /home don't format. > Then you'll have a complete FC5 install, but haven't lost any info that was still on your disk under /home. However, the user account is created new so that any weird stuff from the old install > is avoided. > So in doing this, do I then move /home/username-old back to /home/username once done or just leave it the way it is and access the old data going forward under /home/username-old? <snip> -- Cheers, Trey ---- It's not reality or how you perceive things that's important -- it's what you're taking for it... Linux chameleon 2.6.13-15-default i686 GNU/Linux 10:44pm up 3:04, 4 users, load average: 0.02, 0.03, 0.06 -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list