Is there a safe or easy downgrade FC5 > FC4??

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Jun 20 09:47:34 UTC 2006


Andrew D. Stadler wrote:
> May I suggest that we remain on the original topic, and the (very 
> useful) discussion of recovering Gnome be continued under some other 
> subject / thread?
> 
> I am quite interested in the answer to the original question, as FC5 has 
> turned out to be unuseable on my primary machine due to dual-head 
> problems in the ati driver.
> 
> Let me play the dumb user here and ask:  What happens if I stick my FC4 
> DVD in the drive and boot into its installer?  Will it "do the right 
> thing" or will all hell break loose?

Neither really. Not much will happen because your system already has 
later versions of just about everything in FC4, so the installer won't 
actually install anything.

The easiest way to downgrade would be to reinstall. Really.

Paul.




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