<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Yes, it's possible, but there have been too many reports of problems afterwards to recommend it as a safe procedure. This is as true of Fedora as it is of MS Windows or any other platform (Slackware and OpenBSD seem to be somewhat better about this, but still....). This is one of the benefits to the "EL" version of K12LTSP. You don't have to upgrade your entire OS just to keep up on your security updates. Here's how I approach the issue. Generally, any special tweaks that I have to make are somewhere in /etc or /usr/local/<application>/etc if I've compiled it from src. What I do is put all of these apps in a single directory, maybe /home/customtweaks/etc, and then I symlink that custom stuff from there into either /etc or /usr/local/etc, as appropriate. This also assumes that /home--or wherever else you're storing the custom stuff--is on a separate partition. For example, I have a custom /etc/dhcpd.conf so that I can netboot x86, PowerMac, and UltraSPARC thin clients from the same server. That's how I preserve it across Fedora releases, because I really don't want to re-write that thing over and over. And as for your homedirs, /home should always be on a separate partition for exactly this reason. If it's not, what I would do if I were you is pick up a second hard disk for your server and move all that /home stuff to it. Really. --TP <div class="moz-signature">_______________________________ Do you GNU!? <a href="http://www.gnu.org/">Microsoft Free since 2003</a>--the ultimate antivirus protection! </div> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ssh@tranquility.net">ssh@tranquility.net</a> wrote: <blockquote cite="mid1169922732.21735.2.camel@bofh.ltsp" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi all, What's the best/safest way to perform the above-mentioned upgrade? I would hope that just the 'upgrade' from the CD boot would be possible. In addition to home dirs, there lots of little custom things that have been scattered across the system, that would otherwise need to be replicated on a clean install. thx Scott S. </pre> <pre wrap=""> <hr size="4" width="90%"> _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.k12os.org"><http://www.k12os.org></a></pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>