On Thu, 16 Jul 2009, Mike Cloaked wrote:
seth vidal-3 wrote:
why am I seth vidal-3? I'm fairly certain I'm seth vidal-1 :)
I hope that what I am about to ask is not going to be regarded as hijacking,
but is there any recorded data on the amount of work needed to pre-upgrade
versus a clean install?
No.
I always do a clean install and then configure using previous system configs
adapted to the new system, bringing back the required parts of user and
system files etc as needed.
Great. That's a fine way to get your system to the new version of fedora.
If you do a pre-upgrade presumably there is still a certain amount of work
to do to get the system into working order under the new system? But is it
significantly less than the work needed doing a clean install?
Sure there's some work - for some folks I'm sure it is less to preupgrade
b/c they make rather largish changes to /etc.
For the F10 to F11 transition if you want the new files system(s) to be ext4
then is it even possible to do it (properly) with pre-upgrade? In my case
prior to F11 I did not have a separate /boot partition - so my way to make
the transition has been to modify the existing partitions to create an ext3
/boot, and then to save all user data in /opt and /home and then install
allowing anaconda to reformat as ext4 partitions for root and /opt /home etc
- and then copy file for /opt and /home back from backup before configuring
the new system.
Yep.
Is pre-upgrade foolproof? What do the experts say about comparing
pre-upgrade vs clean install?
Is there any foolproof software?
I keep getting popups on my F10 systems saying I can install pre-upgrade but
I would prefer to just do a clean install as above and configure the new
system from scratch.
If you prefer it and are happy with it - then stick with it.
TIMTOWTDI
-sv
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