FC4 -> FC6

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Mon Apr 2 01:03:05 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 15:59 -0400, Gordon Keehn wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 19:51 +0100, Chris Jones wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> I suggest you backup your data first if you do this. 
> >> A FC(n) ->FC(n+1) is reasonable but still not really recommended, normally it 
> >> works for most people. FC(n) -> FC(n+2) is not so well tested...
> >>     
> >
> > I wouldn't think of doing it at all. An upgrade just from one level to
> > the next is an iffy proposition. Just one bleep or bloop on your
> > net-connected massive yum session might leave you crippled and broken
> > past the point of reasonable recovery. Ordering a set from one of the
> > software houses is almost as cheap as buying blank CD's. Or, ask one of
> > your friends that use Fedora to send you copies. That's what I did!
> > <chuckles> At least you'd have the tools to recover with and could
> > install from the CD's, if the upgrade fails. YMMV, but I'd prepare in
> > advance for catastrophe. Most guys that have an upgrade session fail
> > will report almost a week's worth of work to recover. I did that once,
> > never again. Ric
> >   
>     That's fine and dandy, except that I've tried twice to upgrade from 
> FC5 to FC6 with two different sets of CDs.  In both cases the .iso files 
> and the CDs verified successfully, but the install crashed just before 
> the end of the first CD with an error related to a lock file.  (I 
> misremember the exact message, but it was the same both times I tried.)  
> In both cases, it left me with an unrecoverably trashed system.  However 
> rather than taking a week or more to straighten out, it took 1 1/2 
> days.  A day to reinstall FC5, and about 12 hours to let YUM reapply all 
> the updates.
>     I'm now waiting for FC7 to see if it's any better, but I'm not 
> really optimistic.  Maybe I'll give kubuntu a try next.

I've got friends using kubuntu reporting the same thing. :) Ric

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