<div dir="ltr"><div><div>just this week, i moved from f17 -> f21.<br><br></div>i found most config stuff under /etc for host and all /home/jackc for the rest.<br></div><div>i slammed these to an offline drive, copying homdir back after the os was ready.<br></div><div><br></div>naturally, YMMV...<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Ranjan Maitra <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maitra.mbox.ignored@inbox.com" target="_blank">maitra.mbox.ignored@inbox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 10:20:44 -0400 "Jeffrey Ross" <<a href="mailto:jeff@bubble.org">jeff@bubble.org</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> I'm looking for some suggestions on how to upgrade an older Fedora system<br>
> and keep as many of the configurations as possible for the applications<br>
> that are being used.<br>
<br>
</span>The recommendation is to go through successive upgrades one after the other. However, I am very doubtful that one of these will not break. I seem to recall that F18 or F19 was the one which broke upgrades (I think it was F19).<br>
<span class=""><br>
> Currently the system is running Fedora 16 and there are at least two<br>
> things that are preventing me from successfully running fedup or the yum<br>
> upgrade.<br>
><br>
> The first stumbling block is that system was installed with separate<br>
> partitions for /, /boot, /var, & /usr and I think that the separation of /<br>
> and /usr is my biggest issue.<br>
<br>
</span>I don't see why this should be an issue in a clean install. Are you wanting to keep /usr because you installed programs here? You may consider moving files that you created to a separate directory inside your home partition and then pushing it back. One possibility is to partition the current /usr and then move the programs to that new partition and keep that one in a new install.<br>
<span class=""><br>
> The second issue is the system is setup with RAID1 on all partitions with<br>
> the bootloader (Grub ?) installed on both disks in the event of a disk<br>
> failure.<br>
<br>
</span>I am not sure how RAID0 figures into this equation: I have not much knowledge of this, sorry.<br>
<span class=""><br>
> I would like to avoid a new/clean install (I know I can preserve /home) if<br>
> at all possible.<br>
<br>
</span>You can pretty much preserve whichever partition you want as long as it makes sense. For instance, you could keep a separate /usr/local partition where you could put your local installed programs. But this is after the fact so will not be helpful.<br>
<span class=""><br>
> Any suggestions on how to proceed?<br>
<br>
</span>It is for situations such as these that I wish that there was also a rolling-release version of Fedora.<br>
<br>
Many thanks and best wishes,<br>
Ranjan<br>
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