Upgrading from 6 to 7

[Karl Larsen]

Paul Smith wrote:
> On 7/2/07, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>> > I just read where someone upgraded from Fedora6 to Fedora7. Is this
>> > still a big risk with the
>> > dependency issues. I have most things fairly stable and the way I like
>> > them. From alot of
>> > opinions that I have read over the past couple of weeks here, it
>> > sounds like I might as well just
>> > stay with 6. I'm starting to get figure-it-out-burn-out. Any Thoughts?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > George Hare
>>     Hi George, I just went from 6 to 7 the painless way. Today we have
>> HUGE hard drives. So what I did was load Fedora 7 in another partition.
>> I did a full new load not an upgrade.
>>
>>     Once it is up you can put a line in your /etc/fstab file that makes
>> mounting your fc6 to your new f7 easy and just move the stuff you want
>> from 6 to 7. You get to pick and choose what you want on your new 7.
>
> Here, the F7 installation dvd does not simply install anything, as the
> F7 kernel is buggy:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242229
>
> Paul
>
    Hi Paul, the 47 updates include another kernel. I hope this one will 
be a keeper. What did you find wrong with the older one?

Karl

Upps I will go to Bugzilla. Thanks