Has anyone successfully updated FC3 with FC4?

Julius Smith julius.smith at gmail.com
Tue Jun 28 17:53:38 UTC 2005


I have learned from experience to always do a fresh install (usually
on a new disk drive), and then _selectively_ copy things over from the
previous installation (under /mnt).  I have had no problems copying
/usr/local, after making sure it is empty after a fresh install, but I
would never try copying /etc.   Almost all of my problems with
upgrades in the past have been due to incompatible state in various
~/.* configuration files.  I therefore copy them *very* selectively,
and prefer to rebuild them when there's not much in them.  For
something important, like email, I'll look and make sure the file
formats and directory structure look identical before copying.  The
only thing I copy from /etc are some cron scripts.  While I expect I
could safely copy passwd, group, and hosts, I prefer to review my
setup by entering them via the GUI tools.  (It's also a chance to
familiarize with the latest GUI interfaces.)

Julius




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