Upgrading RH8 to FC3

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Richard S. Crawford wrote:

> The subject line says it all.  I have an old RH8 server that I'd like to 
> upgrade to FC3; trouble is, said server has about 10GB of music files sitting 
> on the /home partition of hda.  My thought is to pop in a second hard drive, 
> mount it and copy all of the files in the /home partition to /dev/hdab, then 
> wipe out hda and install FC3 fresh.
> 
> Before I embark on this, though, I need to know if this is a stupid plan.  I 
> know that simply popping in the FC3 disks and trying to do an upgrade is 
> bound to be problematic.

If your /home is a separate partition - you can do a fresh FC3 install
while preserving /home

But if its just /home that you are worried about - you might as well
make a backup - over the network using rsync [assuming you have
another machine on the network with sufficient disk space]

Satish