<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2008/3/4, Patrick O'Callaghan <<a href="mailto:pocallaghan@gmail.com">pocallaghan@gmail.com</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 14:11 +0100, Cassian Luppu wrote:<br> > Hi all,<br> ><br> > I´m using FC5 in one of my desktop computers. Yes, I do know it is<br> > pretty old-fashioned, and I´m about to upgrade to FC8.<br>
<br> <br>It's F8 actually. The "core" terminology was dropped after FC6.</blockquote><div><br>Ups, yeah, I always forget that one :)<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> I just wanted to ask you guys what is the best way to get it running<br> > with the less problems possible, I know I´ll have to face some of<br> > then.<br> ><br> > I guess that setting up the FC8 repositories and yum upgrade wouldn´t<br>
> be the best way, would it?<br> <br> <br>I'd advise against it. Fedora is not guaranteed to work even doing an<br> upgrade from one version to the next (I've done it but frequently I find<br> myself doing a fresh install after a while). </blockquote>
<div><br><br>Exactly, I did knew that, I just one a confirmation :-)<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">It's almost certainly<br>
easier to back up your user data (/home, /etc, /usr/local, ...) and<br> install from scratch. Take a list of your RPMs as well ('rpm -qa --last<br> > LIST') just in case.</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
poc</blockquote><div><br><br>The problem here is that the /home/user I want to keep is 16GB, so it's going to be a pain to trasnfer it. I blame myself for not creating the partion when I installed the system<br><br>Any other advice?<br>
Thank you very very much<br>C<br></div><br></div><br>