Upgrading from RedHat (7.2)

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Tue Oct 24 14:47:42 UTC 2006


Todd Simi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there an method of upgrade from RedHat 7.2 to FC5 that won't 
> require a backup and selective restore after completely overwriting 
> the OS that's on it right now?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Todd
> 
> 

Hi Todd.

As others have stated, it is much better to do a clean install.  I tried 
the route from RH8 to FC2 and I had issues for almost a year.  Finally 
did a clean install for FC4.  Things ran much better.

Some applications have had name changes so these wouldn't be updated 
leaving you a whole mess of files and applications to sort out in the 
end.  I would spend one or two days a month just going through files and 
links for stuff left over from the RH8 install.

I also found that I had to clean out the ~users directories for things 
that had changed between the versions.  I had created a dummy users and 
copied the default files into the /home/users directories.

Good luck.

I now have a seperate partition for new installs on my boot HD.

-- 
Robin Laing




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