Upgrade to FC4 final?
Daniel Gonzalez
dgonzo at optonline.net
Wed Jun 8 18:13:42 UTC 2005
Robin-
Understood. I'm still going to try the upgrade but will burn FC4 iso's
in case of disaster :-)
Thanks for your feedback
Dan Gonzalez
Robin Laing wrote:
> Daniel Gonzalez wrote:
>
>>> I upgraded from RH8 to FC1 and I still find some issues on my
>>> machine from this.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Robin-
>>
>> Could it be that your upgrade skipped a major version number? I'm not
>> trying to be a troll, just curious.
>> It would seem to me that going from a final release candidate to a
>> release version should not require a full install.
>> If that's the case, then something needs to be addressed with the
>> current update mechanism.I'm not a programmer but I pride myself in
>> the fact that I can usually grind out a solution to whatever's
>> presesnted to me. If I do find something useful, that pearl of wisdom
>> will be passed on. The only issue i can see is that if someone
>> installed FC3test 3 and continually updated through yum, at this
>> point their system is already tracking FC5-devel. What would indicate
>> to me that I can stop tracking devel and "put the brakes on" to a
>> release version? I guess that should have been my initial question.
>>
>> If continual discussion of this issue is beating a dead horse, please
>> let me know and I'll drop the issue. I'm relatively new to the list
>> and to Fedora so I don't know what is proper netiquette for this list
>>
>> Dan Gonzalez
>>
>>
>
> I did miss the RH9 so this is an issue. The comment from one of the
> sysadmins was to do a clean install. He had gone the version to
> version upgrade. This was stated just last week.
>
> Previous discussions on upgrading versus clean install has always
> seemed to end in doing a clean install. Even when moving from test to
> release. It can be searched in the archives. If I remember
> correctly, there may be some residue code or errors from previous bug
> fixes that may not be properly dealt with.
>
>
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