FC5 Upgrade

[Michael A. Peters]

On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 10:35 -0600, Smith, Herb wrote:
> I did an upgrade from FC4 to FC5 last evening.  I'm having a couple
> issues...
> 
> 1) When I create a launcher, it will not let me select a custom icon

Don't Know

> 2) Where did the "Network Device Control" selection go that was under
> System Tools?  I used this to activate my dial-up modem and it doesn't
> appear.

/usr/bin/system-control-network

I don't see it in the menu, but I had it on a gnome panel - and it is
still there and works fine.

I use it on my laptop because NetworkManager had a nasty habit of
dropping my wifi - which doesn't happen if I use "Network Device
Control" to manually switch between networks.


> 
> I don't know if there are any other issues, that's as far as I got.  Is
> this symptomatic of something in particular? 
> Any suggestions, or am I better off just doing a complete re-install and
> rebuild my user directories afterward, ie. Start all over.

That's what I always do.
Keep /home as a separate partition.
tar up /etc and store it someplace safe.

After install, log in as root and add all UID/GID above 500 to the
passwd/group/shadow file - and you are golden (well, except for
re-installing stuff that didn't get installed with the fresh install)