<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2008/3/4, Richard Shaw <<a href="mailto:hobbes1069@gmail.com">hobbes1069@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;">
2008/3/4 Cassian Luppu <<a href="mailto:cassian.luppu@gmail.com">cassian.luppu@gmail.com</a>>:<br> <br>><br> ><br> > 2008/3/4, Patrick O'Callaghan <<a href="mailto:pocallaghan@gmail.com">pocallaghan@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
> > 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.<br> ><br> > Ups, yeah, I always forget that one :)<br> ><br> ><br> > > > 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).<br>
><br> ><br> ><br> > Exactly, I did knew that, I just one a confirmation :-)<br> ><br> ><br> > > 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.<br> > > poc<br> ><br> ><br> > The problem here is that the /home/user I want to keep is 16GB, so it's<br>
> going to be a pain to trasnfer it. I blame myself for not creating the<br> > partion when I installed the system<br> ><br> > Any other advice?<br> > Thank you very very much<br> > C<br> <br> <br>I had a similar problem and got around it by doing this:<br>
<br> 1. Booting to the rescue disk<br> 2. Chroot-ing to the root of my installation.<br> 3. Making a backup directory off the root and moving everything I want<br> to keep into it. (/home,/var,/etc)<br> 4. Deleting everything else I could (not everything is a real file) a<br>
la 'rm -rf'<br> 5. Reboot loading the normal install and choosing to preserve my<br> current partitions.<br> 6. Copying as needed out of /backup after install.<br> <br> Worked like a charm for me but YMMV.</blockquote>
<div><br><br>Oh, Richard, that sounds perfect for me!<br>However, why did you chrooted your / to create /backup? <br>Isn't it enought to just create /backup and move everything into it?<br>I mean, why booting using the rescue disk and all that to move just /home?<br>
<br>Thanks!<br>C<br> </div><br></div><br>