Upgrading from Redhat7.2 to new Fedora release?

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El vie, 21-11-2003 a las 13:01, Leguijt, Jaap J SIEP-EPT-AER escribió:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a computer running with the Redhat 7.2 release of Linux. What
> is the procedure I need to follow if I want to upgrade my machine to
> the newest Fedora release?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jaap Leguijt

Despite another opinions about the upgrading between mayor versions
(there are two of that between 7.2 and FC1), I've upgrade two machines
(one a laptop) that were RHL 8 installed first, and updated to the bug
fixes, erratas and security patches (official RHN) to october 2003. Then
I inserted the disks (burned from iso's from a official mirror here in
Spain), starting by disk 1, and reboot.

The installer detected my Red Hat Linux 8 previously installed on hda4,
and the FAT32 on hda1, upgraded grub to mantain dual-boot between
Windows Me and FC1 (such combination!, don't you think so?...:-), and
started the upgrading RPM by RPM. At end, a new Fedora Core 1 started
without major problems, and upon reswitching to KDE, all important
personal adjustements were mantained. I'm not and I was not using Gnome,
but the installer forgot this.

The menues structure and general appearance is, in fact, very similer to
Red Hat 8 (first on using Bluecurve). Perhaps since Red Hat 7.x could be
more tricky, my remembers of Seawolf (7.1, previously at 8 installed in
one machine) were that they had too different tastes.

No headaches, no problems. All seems to work fine upon two o three minor
changes in some conf files, even "exotic" hardware as IrDA, motherboard
based video cards.....DVD, CD-RW, plus IrDA on laptop, all working on
same basis. Ximian Evolution mantained the mail that were preexisting
and mail accounts....

¿Minor changes? Samba shares (NFS works exactly equal, despite the
graphical interface, or identical on text configuration), plugins for
Mozilla (they must be relinked or moved to the new mozilla-1.4
directory, using appropiate Java compilled against gcc-3.2), install
rhgb for graphical startup, rearrange of OpenOffice (it protest if an
old .openoffice user folder exist and refuses then install correctly),
and some sort more than I can't remember now. Nothing terrorifical...:-)


In fact, the support for Spanish in FC1 is better than I expected. More
man pages and applications in Spanish, and no UTF-8 clutches and
extrange symbols as I found in RHL8. Globally, I'm impressed...:-)

But be sure to backup all your important data, conf files, files on /etc
related to partitions, configurations, etc. Each upgrade could be (sure
it is) one world apart, and if you encounter the worst of them....

There are a sentence that affirms that in computation, if any software
works well, you may not change it.....but I think that's not the correct
way to support and to assure the future of this proyect. Another words
to pray if you use your Linux boxes on the self related "production
environment". But if you have at least two, one could be a perfect
laboratory subject....:-)

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Greetings/Saludos,

Aurelio Sánchez
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Saludos,

Aurelio Sánchez
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Registered Linux User # 272846
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