FC2 to FC3 or FC4 upgrade

[Mark Knecht]

On 7/7/05, Otto Haliburton <ottohaliburton at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-install-list-
> > bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mark Knecht
> > Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 3:14 PM
> > To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> > Subject: FC2 to FC3 or FC4 upgrade
> >
> > Hi,
> >    I wonder what experience people here have with upgrading an FC2 box
> > to newer FCx revisions. Is this something that can, in general, be
> > safely accomplished using the FCx install CDs? What tricks do I need
> > to know about to do an upgrade? Frankly I've never done one but rather
> > have always done complete installs from scratch. I'm tired of doing
> > that and just want a clean, simple, plug in the disk and one hour
> > later it works like it always has but it's a new release.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
> Just did a fc3 to fc4 no problem.  Just download the cd's and boot and tell
> it to upgrade and after some time it finishes and you boot and you're done,
> do a update when you reboot and you should be done.  Can't tell you that you
> won't have problems, because you may have done some special things and I
> don't know that you won't have to redo them, but I didn't so I don't think
> you will.  It is very straight forward.  There is the old saying though if
> it ain't broke don't fix it unless you enjoy the crisis of breaking it
> again.
> 
Thanks Otto,
   I'll give the FC3 version a try then. There are a couple of program
that I'm buildign from source that require newer libraries and it
seems too much work to try and slip those into FC2 vs. just moving to
FC3 or FC4.

Cheers,
Mark