Fedora upgrade from 6 to 9

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon Aug 18 11:00:30 UTC 2008


On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 01:36:54PM +0300, Sundeep Pundamale wrote:
> Can some one provide instructions to upgrade fedora 6 to fedora 9. What are 
> the precautions that needs to be taken so as to not break the system and 
> existing configurations.

Here's how I'd think about it: how would you get the system configuration
and data back if the hard drive failed? At this level of update, you're
probably best doing a clean install and then recreating your existing
configuration. (Easiest to do if you have /home on a separate partition.)

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