The upgrade is complete..
Michael Ben-Gershon
mybg at netvision.net.il
Sun Feb 1 10:14:44 UTC 2004
WipeOut wrote:
> I have been putting off upgrading my RH9 desktop for a while now, but
> yesterday I climbed into it..
>
> Copied my entire home directory and other data to another PC then did a
> fresh install.. The in just copied back my .mozilla and .gaim
> direcrities into my new how directory and everything was there, all my
> bookmarks, mailinglist rules.. everything.. It was the most painless
> upgrade of a desktop I have ever done.. then just copied back all my data..
>
> I updated the system using yum and my local mirror site, and then added
> the updated gmone-panel to get the drawres working..
>
> Finally I added the latest JRE and Flash plugins to mozilla..
>
> I am sure there will be a few apps that I am going to have to reinstall
> but all in all it was a piece of cake..
>
> I recommend anyone who is still hanging back on installing FC1 to go for
> it..
Well, my upgrade was far more painful. I have been running a RH7.2 system
for a long time now, and it has had all kinds of upgrades added over
time, making it very non-standard. I initially tried upgrading, which
left my system in a complete mess! I restored the whole system and
did a clean install. I then gradually moved over my old stuff. I found that
my quite acceptable P4-1500 with 512M and an old Radeon graphics card was
just not up to the new desktop environment (which I find very pleasant to
use) so I had to do a major hardwarre upgrade as well. This has gone
pretty smoothly, although my rather ancient Buslogic SCSI card does not
seem to behave well on the new motherboard, so I am ditching it as well
in favour of more modern equipment.
I have now got almost everything working pretty well, including moving
over my old apache installation to the new version.
I can now say that I am very happy indeed with Fedora Core 1, despite all
the trouble I had initially. I guess that if I had upgraded the system a
bit more often I would have been saved much of the misery I had this time.
Hopefully the new up2date utility will make this quite easy and painless!
Michael Ben-Gershon
mybg at netvision.net.il
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