Re: fresh install or?

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shane c branch wrote:

Carlos wrote:

Hello again,
I'm wondering if I should or could do an upgrade from red hat 9 to fedora, or would it be best to just do a fresh install. Just got a fedora dvd and itching to try it out. But would like to hear some advice or opinions or just things to look out for if any. Thank you all,
Carlos




I haven't tried Fedora yet myself, but I would also vote for the fresh install.


One nice thing about fedora is you can upgrade a running RH 8/9 system to fedora, while keeping the box up and running and in service the whole time, but if you can afford some downtime, a clean install is best. Typically I save /etc, and then when doing the the clean install I tell it to leave the /home partition alone, along with any other special stuff like /opt or /usr/local if they are separate partitions. In an upgrade, there is always a lot of cruft that has to be sorted out by hand afterwards.

Joe


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