Upgrading from FC1 to FC2 via apt-get

[Brian Wright]

On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 11:11, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> Possible in many/most cases but certainly not advisable. If you're using
> LVM then just forget about it, other things can be fixed manually if you
> really want to waste time doing what anaconda would do for you.
> 

I did a dist-upgrade with Synaptic to see what would happen, and it
seems that it would remove quite a few packages.

Does Anaconda also remove packages when doing an upgrade.

> > My big concern is the new file naming conventions for the X.org release of
> > X Windows.  I think the config file for X would have to be regenerated.
> 
> That and various other things ... A basic IDE box is likely to *boot*
> quite happily after such an upgrade but you'll have plenty of tinkering
> to do afterwards.

Just as I thought.  I may go the CD-R upgrade route.

Thanks! :D

--Brian