At 12:25 AM +0100 5/2/06, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Philip Prindeville wrote:
I have a system that was installed as FC3, and has been extensively reconfigured (added outside repos, etc) and did some source-level builds and installs.
I'm hoping to find a path to upgrade to FC5, rather than having to note all my config changes, save all my data, install, reconfigure, and then restore my data.
Can this be done?
It certainly can be done, by upgrading to FC-4 and then to FC-5. I'm not sure if it can be done in one step, but I doubt if you will lose anything by trying.
I did it in one step. I used the CD installer, not a yum upgrade. I made a backup first, and then made a copy of my FC3 partition and made sure that worked, and upgraded that. The original FC3 is still there. There have been a few odd things, such as not having beagle installed (though libbeagle is installed) and having all my old kernels deleted, even those for booting the original FC3 partition, and I did clean up the various .rpmnew files. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' mailto:tonynelson@georgeanelson.com ' http://www.georgeanelson.com/