On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 07:25:55PM +0000, Beartooth wrote:
>
> I've come into possession of an otherwise nice machine (so I'm
> told; I don't speak hardware) that still has Fedora Core 5 installed. I
> want to upgrade it to F8 now, and F10 once that's released.
>
> Is there a best way to go about it, short of a fresh install of
> F8? It has a lot of data, as well as a lot of configuration, that I'd
> hate to lose.
>
> Any gotchas to watch out for?
>
> If, say, I upgrade first to F7 (because I know where my DVD for
> that is), and then to F8 -- do I want to update F7 as best I can in
> between? Or just go straight to F8?
>
Since this machine is new to you and old to someone else
the obvious question is what needs to be preserved?
If you wish to preserve stuff then do CD/DVD upgrades one at
a time. In general a 5 to 6 upgrade works because 6 was tested
in exactly this update case. Same for 6 to 7, 7 to 8 etc....
If this is now your machine and there is no need to preserve anyting
it is often best to just do a fresh install. The advantage of a fresh
install is that you do not have to work through a bazillion *rpmnew and
other historic config files. And, If I recall the default partition sizes way
back in
Fedora 2,3,4 times were too small for modern Fedora... A clean install
will get you partition sizes (including swap) that make sense today.
With updates, one important command to know is "yum list extras".
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