On 1 Sep 2020 at 19:17, Samuel Sieb wrote:
Subject: Re: system-upgrade To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org From: Samuel Sieb samuel@sieb.net Date sent: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 19:17:36 -0700 Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users users@lists.fedoraproject.org
On 9/1/20 6:54 PM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote:
I'd recommand doing one version upgrade at a time. You are suppose to be able to upgrade 2 versions, but I once had it fail and system was not easily fixable, so just did a clean install that was a pain to get back to the state of the system.
I just updated two machines from fc31 to fc32 using dnf with no problem.
I've done a lot of F30 to F32 upgrades with no problems.
Was asking about the safest way. I've also done a number of two version updates over the years. Had a classroom with 21 computers, and generally, wouldn't do an upgrade in the middle of a semester, so 2 version upgrades where common. It was just one time years ago, that doing the two version upgrade caused a system to fail to boot after the upgrade. Tried a couple of things, but couldn't get it to work, so just reimaged it to the previous setup, and did two 1 version updates that worked fine.
Always, did an image backup before just in case, but also had other systems that could be reimaged to it if a problem happened.
Takes more time, and probable not likely to have any issue, but one never knows.
Retired after 36 years of teaching, so haven't done a 30 to 32 upgrade. Started with Unixware as first unix related system, and the went to RedHat 9. Went from Fedora Core 1 to the Fedora 32. Have 5 linux systems at home doing stuff. 3 are Fedora 32, 2 are still Fedora 31.
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