upgrading FC3 -FC4

[Robin Laing]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 06:52:18AM -0700, bruce wrote:
> 
>>is there a 'best' process for doing an upgrade of a system from FC3 to FC4
>>without killing the system!!
> 
> 
> Skip FC4. It was a decent enough release, but at this point, it's actually
> impossible to do an FC4 install and bring it up to the latest security
> patches without jumping through many hoops -- and the result still being a
> almost two releases behind.
> 
> You should be able to boot with an FC5 (or, momentarily, FC6t2) install CD
> and pick "upgrade" and have everything go just fine.
> 
> Personally, I usually find it faster to configure my systems with a separate
> /home partition, and (after backing up any critical config files from /etc,
> which I try to minimize) then you can choose to do a new install but
> /partition with Disk Druid "manually", leaving the former /home partition
> unformatted but reformatting and overwriting the rest.
> 
> 


I agree, skip FC4 unless there is something that is not available for 
FC5 that you just need.

Also, it is advisable to do a clean install on a separate partition 
allowing you to dual boot between the old FC3 and the FC4 versions.

-- 
Robin Laing