Newbie: How to upgrade from Red Hat 9 to Fedora from hard disk
Timothy Murphy
tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Sat Dec 20 00:03:40 UTC 2003
On Friday 19 December 2003 23:37, Ghod wrote:
> >>hope it never crashes.. since you would
> >>never be able to install ANYTHING back on it.
> >
> >If you're referring to me, the laptop has been running Linux for 2 years.
> >It does "crash" or "hang" occasionally --
> OR.. your not doing an UPGRADE.. but rebuilding a kernel. an upgrade
> (using the menus) does NOT give you that option to keep existing
> instanaces of linux and most newb's will make that mistake.
(1) If you upgrade (which I did from RH-9)
old kernels _are_ kept, and grub.conf is updated to include the new kernel.
Therefore you _do_ have the option of running old kernels.
[As an illustration, the Fedora kernel did not run
on my SCSI-only desktop,
but I was able to boot from an old kernel.]
(2) You are using a deprecated boot-loader, LILO,
so you are not in a position to say what happens
if you follow the official advice to use grub.
(3) You said "I hope your system doesn't crash",
and I pointed out that it does occasionally hang,
without any disastrous effect.
> I'm not questioning YOUR ability to work with linux.. this WAS a newb
> question and I gave newb advice.
It was bad advice.
I suggest that in future you are not so quick to give dogmatic advice.
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Timothy Murphy
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