FC5 => F8 upgrade : advice?

[Beartooth]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:14:36 -0700, Craig White wrote:

> On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 20:15 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
>> 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.
> ----
> I was thinking more along the lines that Fedora 7 labels ATA/IDE hard
> drives as SCSI devices which changes the drive letter designations from
> /dev/hda to /dev/sda et. al.

	That I'm quite familiar with, and looked hard for any /sd 
anything, in or out of /dev, /media, or anywhere else.

	I started another thread "upgrade from hard drive", since that 
seems the most hopeful.

	Ideally, of course, I'd DBAN the whole thing, and do a fresh 
install of F8 or even F9. But I don't want to take any chances with those 
archives till I know they're up and available on the new site, and the 
machine belongs to me -- just in case. 

	Otoh, I'm not a pro and wouldn't be competent to run the defenses 
the last guy must have had, even if I had them. (I do have both hard- and 
software firewalls, including a router, iptables, denyhosts, and others; 
but once cracked, I'd have no idea how to defeat, repair, & restore.) 

	So I want badly to upgrade to a point where I'll get security 
updates.

-- 
Beartooth Squirreler, Wordcrafty Staffwright
Not Quite Clueless Fedora Power User
I have little idea (precious little!) what I'm talking of.