Fedora upgrade to a new partition

[Kam Leo]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Joachim Backes <
joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> having the following question: sometimes it happens that after an
> upgrade of a Fedora-x to a Fedora-y, the Fedora-y does not run correctly
> (there may be a lot of reasons for this...). So going back to a running
> system, but how to achieve this?
>
> So my question (or proposal): it would be very helpful if an upgrade
> could be done to a new partition (including copying all imporant files
> from the Fedora to be updated). This would save oneself a lot of backups
> and restores.
>
> Is the current anaconda able to fulfill such things?
>
> Kind regards
>

What important files?

If you got the drive space just do the install to the new partition(s) and
copy your "important" data from the old distro to the new. You get the
benefit of being able to boot the older distro if the new one has problems..
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