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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