ugrading & reiser
Jim Cornette
fct-cornette at insight.rr.com
Sun Jan 1 23:19:45 UTC 2006
A few corrections added: Test 2 and list vs lst:
Jim Cornette wrote:
> Petr Fischer wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 1) can I upgrade directly from FC3 to FC5?
>> 2) can I upgrade FC4 with reiser root file system to FC5 - any problems
>> with resier root partition recognition in anaconda?
>>
>> Thanks! pf
>>
>
> I seen your question on both the fedora list and this test list. I did
> not hear any mention that reiserfs was removed. I guess the most sure
> way is to download the FC5 Test 2 disks when it is released and see if
> the installer is happy with the reiserfs.
>
> There was talk that xfs needed selinux disabled, so it should be
> supported as in the past.
>
> For FC3 to FC5 upgrade, things might be a bit harder because of packages
> being transferred over to fedora Extras which used to be included in
> Fedora core. These packages will not get upgraded until you run yum
> update after the install is completed. Also, there are a lot of Java
> pckages in FC5 which were not available in FC3. You might need to check
> the release notes in FC4 for package additions as well as FC5 release
> notes to see if there are any packages which you desire. On upgrades,
> they will not be added.
>
> Jim
>
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