update to FC2?

[Michael McCabe]

It worked for me on one system but not on another.
Mike

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 11:52, Ron Henderson wrote:
> I was planning on using the upgrade option in setup when you boot from
> the cd-roms. Bad idea?
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul M. Bucalo [mailto:pmbuc at pmbenterprises.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 10:18 AM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: update to FC2?
> 
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 10:03:55 -0600, Benjamin J. Weiss graced me with:
> 
> > Although it is not too early to be considering the migration to FC2
> > when it's final release comes out.  Because FC will only release
> > security updates for FC1 for 2-3 months after FC2 comes out.
> > 
> > So far, I've always done a clean install when upgrading RH during
> > major releases (7.3 -> 8 -> 9) and I imagine that I'll want to do a
> > clean install of FC2 as well.  For those who *can't* do the clean
> > install, however, I can't help but imagine a nice, clean HOWTO
> > might be in order.
> > 
> > Ben
> 
> I was (maybe naively) hoping to be able to 'yum' FC2 over FC1 from the 
> console shell prompt (under init 3) when that time comes. Of course, 
> my '/home' partitions and tweaked '*.conf' files would be backed-up, 
> first. Not having done this, then, do you have any trepidation in 
> doing this when the time comes? 
> 
> Does anyone here..I would love to hear from someone who has been 
> contributing to this project...feel that this is going to be a 
> disastrous approach to upgrading to FC2?
> 
> Paul
> 
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