suggested upgrade path from fc8 to fc12 *OR* isolated kernel upgrade from 2.6.23 to 2.6.32

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 23:05:06 -0500,
  Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
> 
> I think that happened before F8, but you need to double check. If
> this happened in F9, I would suggest piecemeal updates. I'm sure you
> will still easily find F9 images to download and install, the after
> updating to F9 (presuming that's the release that switched to the
> new RPM DB format), jump to F12.

He isn't going to be able to go directly from F8 to F12 without a lot
of futzing around. A fresh install might be less work.