FC2 to FC3 - issues?

[Gerry Tool]

Mark Haney wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 10:19 -0800, Joshua Andrews wrote:
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>>I am running FC2 but would like to upgrade to FC3.
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>>I don't have an extra PC or hard disk for a fresh install of FC3 so this 
>>will have to be a direct upgrade to FC2 on a multi-boot system.
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>>Of course I will backup my /home directory but I want to know if there 
>>are issues to be aware of especially with regard to other OS's (win2k, 
>>RH9), that are already on the system.
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>>Thanks,
>>Joshua
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>I am in the same boat as you, I just upgrade this laptop of mine to FC3
>from FC2 without any problems particularly.  The only issue I had was
>OpenOffice apps not opening, but that was due to a lib not being
>installed/upgraded during the upgrade.  Besides that it was smooth
>sailing.
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>Mark Haney
>Network Administrator
>InterAct Public Safety Systems
>mhaney at interactsys.com
>Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) Kernel: 2.6.9-1.667 GNU/Linux 
>14:30:11 up 4:11, 1 user, load average: 1.43, 1.54, 1.73 
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I did both a fresh install and an upgrade of a completely up-to-date FC2 
system.  The fresh install seems perfect.  The upgrade managed to lose 
track of the CD devices in K3b.  It also didn't update my yum 
configuration file, so when I tried to use yum, nothing happened until I 
copied the configuration file from the fresh install.  OpenOffice.org 
worked fine on both systems.

The great thing about the update was that it migrated all my evolution 
files from version 1.4 to version 2.0.  I was then able to copy the 
.evolution folder from the updated system to the fresh install and 
migrate all of my e-mail to the fresh install.  At this point I'm going 
to retire the updated system and use the fresh install. (System here 
means a different partition with an install, all on the same hardware.)

Gerry