FC-4 -- unhappy experiences

[Jerry DeLisle]

Basil Copeland wrote:
> On 6/17/05, Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> 
>>I've had rather unhappy experiences on all 3 computers
>>I've tried to upgrade from FC-3 to FC-4.
>>Sadly, my experience is that the Fedora installation
>>has been getting steadily worse, from FC-1 (fine) to FC-2 to FC-3 to FC-4.
>>
> 
> 
> I haven't tried to upgrade yet; my first two installations have been
> fresh installs.
> 
> Despite what I'm sure is extensive testing, any new final release is a
> bit bumpy at first.  I've hit some rough spots with my first two
> installs, but nothing terribly out of the ordinary for a fresh
> release.  If I want a really smooth transition to a new release, I
> wait a couple of months, I don't try to do it the day after it is
> released (which is what I did this time, but only on machines I'm
> willing to sacrifice to the effort).  On stable FC3 machines that are
> important to me, I'm following the "if it isn't broken, don't fix it"
> philosophy for now.  I'll consider upgrading them in a few months.
> 
> Basil
> 
That is a very wise decision.  I really like Fedora and I have a stable 
FC3 install.  I tried to upgrade to FC4 and the new installation would 
not boot.  In fact the install image would not boot.  There is a work 
around for that, but after i completed the install I had a dead machine 
and no older kernels to boot.  The FC4 rescue image would also not boot.

I am not being negative though.  Its a bug and its being worked on.  I 
went in with my FC3 rescue disk made some backups of all my home 
directories (just in case) and then resinstalled FC3.  I had all the 
updates on another  partition so I could point yum to that and I am 
happily back on FC3 (did not have to use my backups) with no losses.  A 
few bugs are to be expected on an early release.

So I will be patient and if the devlopers need test info from me i am 
ready to give.

Jerry