Re: Upgrading from 6 to 7

[Paul Smith]

On 7/2/07, Karl Larsen  wrote:
> > I just read where someone upgraded from Fedora6 to Fedora7. Is this
> > still a big risk with the
> > dependency issues. I have most things fairly stable and the way I like
> > them. From alot of
> > opinions that I have read over the past couple of weeks here, it
> > sounds like I might as well just
> > stay with 6. I'm starting to get figure-it-out-burn-out. Any Thoughts?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > George Hare
> Hi George, I just went from 6 to 7 the painless way. Today we have
>
> HUGE hard drives. So what I did was load Fedora 7 in another partition.
> I did a full new load not an upgrade.
> Once it is up you can put a line in your /etc/fstab file that makes
>
> mounting your fc6 to your new f7 easy and just move the stuff you want
> from 6 to 7. You get to pick and choose what you want on your new 7.

Here, the F7 installation dvd does not simply install anything, as the
F7 kernel is buggy:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242229

Paul