Fedora 6 directly to Fedora 9 upgrade path?

[Kevin J. Cummings]

vincenzo romero wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Wondering if anyone has successfully upgraded directly from Fedora6 to
> Fedora9 .. if that is even supported at all?

Yes, I have successfully upgraded from FC6 to F9.  I even changed from 
i686 to x86_64 in the process.  Is it supported?  Probably not, but many 
of the possible upgrade paths are not "supported".

> If yes, any pointers will be greatly appreciated and/or links to steps.

I don't think I documented my steps very well.  I've been doing various 
upgrades of RH stuff since 3.0.3 on various machines.  Many of them were 
done the "hard" way.  My definition of the hard way:

	READ THE RELEASE NOTES for every release between where you are, and 
what you want to install.

	Try updating from a new release DVD.  When it fails:

	Install the new redhat-release RPM (or in this case, the fedora-release 
RPM).
	Try:   yum upgrade

	When it fails, do a yum check-update

	From the list of files, start a piecemeal upgrade process by updating 
certain packages using yum.  like the kernel, and glibc.
Sometimes its necessary to disable your 3rd party repositories until you 
get fedora itself updated.  Other times you can update as you go.

	After they get installed, start doing "yum updates" of every installed 
package.  I usually do this a few at a time and deal with the 
dependencies as necessary.  This usually takes me a few days to get 
through the entire alphabet of packages.  It takes a few more weeks of 
"find something that doesn't work right, fix it".  I usually end up 
asking myself:  "Do I really need this package" quite a few times.
I usually end up reading the RELEASE-NOTES a few times during the 
process to try and find out why certain RPMs are troublesome.

> If not, I'm fine too and will just reinstall my workstation ... (my
> files are in network anyway....)

Many people swear by the "install the new release over the old release" 
method.  Others backup /etc and /home, reformat, install anew, and 
restore certain configurations from the backups.

> thanks in advance.

Good luck!

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