Upgrading RH8 to FC3

Michael A. Peters mpeters at mac.com
Thu Feb 3 03:40:13 UTC 2005


On 02/02/2005 07:28:02 PM, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> The subject line says it all.  I have an old RH8 server that I'd like
> to
> upgrade to FC3; trouble is, said server has about 10GB of music files
> sitting
> on the /home partition of hda.  My thought is to pop in a second hard
> drive,
> mount it and copy all of the files in the /home partition to
> /dev/hdab, then
> wipe out hda and install FC3 fresh.
> 
> Before I embark on this, though, I need to know if this is a stupid
> plan.  I
> know that simply popping in the FC3 disks and trying to do an upgrade
> is
> bound to be problematic.

That does sound reasonable.
If I were you, I would disconnect the second drive while doing the FC3  
clean install just to avoid accidents.





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