Upgrade to FC4 final?

[Daniel Gonzalez]

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.
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>> Robin-
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>> 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
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> 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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