M. Fioretti wrote:
Why not backup everything,
then completely ERASE the old installation, installing over it
the current version from SCRATCH, then configure it to work as you need?
Seriously. Wouldn't it be a much more reliable path, and consume much
less
time in the end?
Briefly, No.
Surely we all have enough space on our disks nowadays
to create a new partition, and install the new version there?
This gives you a safety net, as you can go back to the old version,
if things don't work out.
Also, you can copy /etc/hosts and similar (with some care)
from the old version.
I did this recently, with an ancient computer (Thinkpad T43),
which I'd left in another house for a couple of years,
and which was running an old version of Fedora, I think Fedora-16.
I was quite surprised it still seems to work fine -
the internal speaker is much louder than any of its successors,
so it's better for listening to the news, etc.
--
Timothy Murphy
gayleard /at/
eircom.net
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin