FC3 => FC5 upgrade... possible?

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Mon May 1 23:25:23 UTC 2006


Philip Prindeville wrote:

> I have a system that was installed as FC3, and has been extensively
> reconfigured (added outside repos, etc) and did some source-level
> builds and installs.
> 
> I'm hoping to find a path to upgrade to FC5, rather than having to
> note all my config changes, save all my data, install, reconfigure,
> and then restore my data.
> 
> Can this be done?

It certainly can be done, by upgrading to FC-4 and then to FC-5.
I'm not sure if it can be done in one step,
but I doubt if you will lose anything by trying.

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