FC3 => FC5 upgrade... possible?

[Philip Prindeville]

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?

Thanks,

-Philip

[Timothy Murphy]

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.

[Dan Book]

Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> 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?
> You can try but you can loose everything. I tried to go from FC2 
>
> to FC5 in one step and it cratered the whole thing. It will not come 
> up. I got most of what was important out by mounting it to another 
> linux and bring files and directories over.
> As for FC5 I got it going but it was just too much for me. I could 
>
> not get it to work right. I am back with FC2 and happy.
>
> Karl
> > 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.

Heh, didn't even try FC4? Right now it's far more stable and up to date 
than FC2. I need the new features of FC5 though, so I'm sticking around 
with it. :)
-Dan

[Tony Nelson]

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.
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[John Swartzentruber]

On 5/1/2006 6:02 PM 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?

I can't answer your question, but I'm planning to try the same thing 
later this month. I (and I'm sure a lot of other people) would really 
like to hear a report about how things go for you if you try it.

[Theodore Papadopoulo]

On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 09:18 -0400, John Swartzentruber wrote:
> On 5/1/2006 6:02 PM 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?
>
> I can't answer your question, but I'm planning to try the same thing 
> later this month. I (and I'm sure a lot of other people) would really 
> like to hear a report about how things go for you if you try it.

I did that just from the CDs. It worked fine apart for a small problem
at login screen where an image is not found (if I remember correctly as
the machine is not here with me). I did not try to solve it, but I think
it should be quite easy. The machine was full with plenty of various
extra rpms (from extras, livna and a few local ones that are needed to
adapt Fedora to our local environment) and was basically managed with
yum.

Then, some colleagues of mine here had troubles (but I think that was
more because of a synaptic/yum conflict). So the best advice I can give
is, make a backup first: I know, this is obvious, but just in case :-)

Theo.