Best way to upgrade from FC5 to FC8

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 17:00 +0100, Cassian Luppu wrote:
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> 04 Mar 2008 10:40:59 -0500, DJ Delorie <dj at delorie.com>:
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>         "Cassian Luppu" <cassian.luppu at gmail.com> writes:
>         > Should I cp -r /home/user or mv /home/user to /backup
>         > I guess that it's "mv" right?
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>         My procedure is pretty much just this:
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>         $ mkdir /old-system
>         $ mv /* /old-system
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> Thanks!
> I'm still don't understand why should I do all that from the rescue cd

You need to be running a system that doesn't depend on what you are
moving (otherwise known as "moving the floor from under you"). You can
do it from anywhere that's not running off your standard HD partition,
such as a rescue CD or any Live CD version of Linux. It doesn't even
have to be Fedora.

poc