Re: FC4->FC5 upgrade options

[Timothy Murphy <tim birdsnest maths tcd ie>]

Craig White wrote:

> One fact is never
> going to change though...a 'clean' install is going to be entirely more
> predictable than an upgraded installation.

How can you be so dogmatic?
The fact is, a "clean install" is going to fail completely on some machines,
so unless you call that "predictable" 
I don't see how your statement can be true.

I've had 3 complete installs of RedHat and Fedora that have failed,
perhaps out of 50.
One was a SCSI-only machine,
and the other two were Sony Picturebooks.

I've had one upgrade that completely failed -
that was FC-2 to FC-3 on a Sony Picturebook.
However, the machine still worked (sort of).
I managed to upgrade in the end using yum.



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