FC2 to FC3 - issues?

[Joshua Andrews]

Gerry Tool wrote:

> Mark Haney wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 10:19 -0800, Joshua Andrews wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> I am running FC2 but would like to upgrade to FC3.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Joshua
>>>
>>>   
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------
>> 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
>>  
>>
> 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
>
Thanks for the input.

I went ahead and just did it. I had forgotten how long it can take to do 
an upgrade.
Anyway, everything seems to have gone fine --I haven't actually tried to 
boot the other OS's yet because up2date is running already and it's 
taking a long time, (lots of updates!).

One thing that was strange is the installer kept saying it couldn't read 
from the CD, I found that just taking it out and putting it back in, or 
putting in my CD-RW, fixed the problem --probably just my flaky old 
hardware tho.

Cheers,
Joshua