FC5 => F8 upgrade : advice?

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 20:15 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:57:16 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 17:47 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> >> 	**Major Question** :
> >> 
> >> 	Now that the upgrade FC5 => FC6 has succeeded, with no apparent
> >> losses, do I want to run yum update, or proceed directly to F7??
> > ----
> > just upgrade - don't update interim versions. I hope that you read the
> > wiki FAQ link I gave you earlier.
> 
> 	Well, I saw that it was warning me heavily against doing it with 
> yum, and I didn't propose that. And it seemed to be all about that.
> 
> 	Thanks to your reminder, I took another look. But I soon hit 
> places where I was unable either to read or to copy commands -- despite 
> trying both Firefox and Opera.
> 
> 	So I dug out my old F7 Respin DVD -- and hit an odd problem. This 
> machine for some reason is reluctant to admit it sees my external USB CD/
> DVD drive. If you poke around, you find a place where it gives its name, 
> but no more.
> 
> 	I got it to see it long enough to transfer some data in, but not 
> on boot, by first logging in as root. I guess I'll have to try that again.
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I was thinking more along the lines that Fedora 7 labels ATA/IDE hard
drives as SCSI devices which changes the drive letter designations
from /dev/hda to /dev/sda et. al.

Craig