upgrading from FC1

[jack wallen]

been using Red Hat since 4.0 and i've never known Red Hat to do a
seamless upgrade. i was just hoping maybe Fedora had resolved some of
those issues.

oh well - i'll just a fresh install.

thanks anyway....

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 16:12, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Do, den 11.11.2004 schrieb M Daniel R M um 21:37:
> 
> > Sure. It must be that. 
> > If I had asked a single -not multiple- question, maybe some people would
> > have answered. 
> > I'll try to "RTFM" oopps! Sorry, this time there is no manual ...
> 
> The answer you hope for simply can't be given seriously. If you want a
> short answer: don't try to upgrade from FC1 to FC3. If you want the long
> version: read the list posting from over the last days. There were
> people upgrading from FC2 and had problems. Read the list archive when
> many upgraded to the fresh FC2 from previous FC1 and see the problems
> they had. The step FC1 -> FC3 has both hurdles. In addition read the
> release notes for FC2 and FC3 - yes, that is the manual for RTFM - and
> understand the specific notes about the changes from the previous
> release.
> 
> If you are a Linux/Fedora freshman then do a fresh install. If you have
> quite some experience and are able to debug things for most parts
> yourself, then with a full backup in background you might risk an
> upgrade and fix non working things afterwards. In worst case the new
> system will not boot and you will have to work with the rescue mode.
> 
> Alexander
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