upgrading rh8.0 to the latest stable fedora...

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

On Friday 25 February 2005 14:24, bruce wrote:
> hi...
>
> i'm running rh8.0.. is it possible to upgrade to the latest stable version
> of fedora, without killing my system..!!
>
> how would i do it...

Hi,
You'd be a lot better off if you do fresh install of Fedora. RH 8 to Fedora is 
such a big jump, you'd likely put the system in a un-stable state with a lot 
of mess.

Back up your data (!!), config files, etc, and do a fresh install. If your 
/home is on a different partion, then during the fresh install you tell the 
installer to not format that partition (it does not format partition that you 
don't explicitly want to, by default), but just put the label /home on the 
partition. Then your /home partition will be intact (but you may want to 
remove the hidden (. dot) config files like .gnome, .kde, etc so that it 
doesn't conflict with new version).
Other partitions (ie. /, swap, /boot) you can re-format.

Most importantly: Backup the data you don't want to loose.


RDB
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Reuben D. Budiardja
Dept. Physics and Astronomy
University of Tennesse, Knoxville, TN

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