Fedora Core 2 to Fedora Core 3

[Paul Iadonisi]

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 13:42 -0800, Dan Hollis wrote:

[snip]

> Most userspace stuff is independent of kernel version though... in any 
> case FC2->FC3 did work so it would be nice if it were officially tested 
> and supported in some way.

  But it is slightly hairy going from a fully populated /dev to a
dynamic /dev populated by udev.  It works, but you must be careful about
what's updated when and that you don't mistakenly reboot at the wrong
point.
  Actually, I think I may be referring to a manual piecemeal rpm update
I did.  Still, you wind up with some weirdness that only safely goes
away on reboot.
  In theory, it's a good idea to support this kind of upgrade, but given
the differences between some releases, updating from one to the other on
a live system can cause problems.  My preferred method is always to
upgrade using anaconda (second only to clean installing from anaconda
when possible).
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