FC5 => F8 upgrade : advice?

[Beartooth]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:57:16 -0700, Craig White wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 17:47 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
>> 	**Major Question** :
>> 
>> 	Now that the upgrade FC5 => FC6 has succeeded, with no apparent
>> losses, do I want to run yum update, or proceed directly to F7??
> ----
> just upgrade - don't update interim versions. I hope that you read the
> wiki FAQ link I gave you earlier.

	Well, I saw that it was warning me heavily against doing it with 
yum, and I didn't propose that. And it seemed to be all about that.

	Thanks to your reminder, I took another look. But I soon hit 
places where I was unable either to read or to copy commands -- despite 
trying both Firefox and Opera.

	So I dug out my old F7 Respin DVD -- and hit an odd problem. This 
machine for some reason is reluctant to admit it sees my external USB CD/
DVD drive. If you poke around, you find a place where it gives its name, 
but no more.

	I got it to see it long enough to transfer some data in, but not 
on boot, by first logging in as root. I guess I'll have to try that again.

-- 
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Fedora 8 & 9; Alpine 1.10, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6;
Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2.0.3, Epiphany 2.20, Opera 9.27, Firefox 2.0
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.