Fedora upgrade from 6 to 9
Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200808 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 18 16:58:56 UTC 2008
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> writes:
> If you do a fresh install and save the /home , and /etc directories
> before install most of the configuration files will be retained and can
> be copied to the new installation.
I second that.
In fact, I like to go one step further and just take out the current
drive, put a spare in and do a clean install of the latest fedora on
that. The advantage is that if for some reason the latest fedora
isn't usable I can always go back to the old version by swapping the
disk back.
-wolfgang
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