FC2 to FC3 or FC4 upgrade

[paul_cour at verizon.net]

Hello

I just upgraded an FC - 2 Desktop
to FC - 4. No operator intervention
what so ever, other than putting
"the next CD" in the slot.

Was pleased with install (err, upgrade)
process.

Piece of Cake!

-pc


>From: Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure at earthlink.net>
>Date: Thu Jul 07 22:10:28 CDT 2005
>To: Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com>, 
	Getting started with Red Hat Linux <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: FC2 to FC3 or FC4 upgrade

>On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:13:36PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> 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
>
>I've done many upgrades of various degrees and had precious few
>problems.  The most common problem I've had on about half of the
>machines I've upgraded to FC2 and beyond from prior versions, is the
>need to add "acpi=off" to the boot line.  One of my clients has two
>very similar Athlon-based servers.  One requires it; one doesn't.  In
>FC3, if it fails to boot without it, a message will tell you to try
>it.
>
>The only specific gotcha to watch for is, on several recent FC2-to-FC3
>Postfix' /etc/postfix/aliases has been abandoned in favor of the more
>conventional /etc/aliases.  Just change the applicable entries in
>/etc/postfix/main.cf, and you're up.
>
>Cheers,
>-- 
>Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
>robertmcclure at earthlink.net  http://www.bobcatos.com
>God doesn't have (or need) a Plan B.
>
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