Apologies for dumb questions

Nifty Hat Mitch mitch48 at sbcglobal.net
Tue Nov 9 01:38:02 UTC 2004


On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 05:05:02PM -0500, Drew, Bill wrote:

> 
> I wanted to apologize for my dumb questions on upgrading to a newer

Not a dumb question.

> Fedora Core.  After all of the positive things I have heard and seen for
> Linux and the Fedora Core, I expected the upgrade to be much simpler.
> If one has an older computer with Fedora Core 1 on it, it is next to
> impossible to upgrade with burning CDs.  I do not have a CD burner on
> this machine that I am using to learn FC and Linux.  Someone is sending
> me CDs for FC2.  I had thought with using a graphical interface such as
> synaptic for apt I could get files that would install through synaptic
> without going to using CD-ROMs.

Great that you will have physical CDROMs.

If you read this list long enough you will find that there are many
ways to skin a cat.  For some live updates are possible.

Upgrades are like painting a floor.
If you go about it the wrong way you could
be stuck in a corner for way too long.


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