Preparing for FC5

[Ali Helmy]

Ingo wrote:
What about just wait some days, then grab fedora-release from FC5,
install it with rpm and just do yum update after that.

I'm afraid I don't really get you, do you mean I should just wait and then
yum update, and everything will be FC5?

On 20/03/06, Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 07:07 -0700, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
>
> >
> > I do one more thing besides the above.  I make a tar of /etc from the
> > old system.  While you can NOT just reload it, it provides many useful
> > settings that you will want to look at when setting up the new machine.
> > Such as, your smb.conf file, data from your sshd.conf file, /etc/hosts,
> > /etc/hosts.deny, /etc/hosts.allow, httpd.conf file, password, group,
> > where to put the vnc lines in your xorg.conf file, etc.
>
> Yes - the ssh stuff is important to prevent man in the middle warnings
> if you keep the same hostname.
>
> I've also (on ppc) had cases where the X11 config file is broken after a
> fresh install, and having the old one gave me pointers on how to
> manually fix it.
>
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