Upgrade from FC5 to FC6

[The Nice Spider]

I see some posting about fc5 upgrade to fc6 using yum.
My question: Is it possible to use fc6 cd/dvd for
upgrading my fc5?

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[Sam Varshavchik]

The Nice Spider writes:
> I see some posting about fc5 upgrade to fc6 using yum.
> My question: Is it possible to use fc6 cd/dvd for
> upgrading my fc5?

You should be able to simply boot off the fc6 dvd, and choose the upgrade 
mode when installation begins.

[Kam Leo]

On 2/28/07, The Nice Spider  wrote:
> I see some posting about fc5 upgrade to fc6 using yum.
> My question: Is it possible to use fc6 cd/dvd for
> upgrading my fc5?

Yes. I did it. However. I wouldn't do it again. Media check is not
reliable and error recovery/read retry just does not work or has an
unacceptable success rate. I recommend that you use the CD/DVD to boot
and install from a hard drive or network (NFS or FTP).

[Alan Cox]

> reliable and error recovery/read retry just does not work or has an
> unacceptable success rate.

Error recovery is done by the drive firmware and by the OS. So if you CD
keeps failing you might want to check the drive, try burning at a lower
rate and/or cleaning it.

[Kam Leo]

On 3/1/07, Alan  wrote:
> > reliable and error recovery/read retry just does not work or has an
> > unacceptable success rate.
>
> Error recovery is done by the drive firmware and by the OS. So if you CD
> keeps failing you might want to check the drive, try burning at a lower
> rate and/or cleaning it.

When it comes to burning Fedora releases I have learned a long time
ago to use the lowest possible burning speed. I still get "unable to
read package xyz" errors in spite of the media passing "media test".
The error typically occurs mid way or further in the installation
process, well after I have stepped away from the machine. "Retry"
seldom succeeds. Rather than waste hours waiting for an installation
which may never finish I find network installs to be a more reliable
option..

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:13:38 -0800 (PST)
The Nice Spider  wrote:
> I see some posting about fc5 upgrade to fc6 using yum.
> My question: Is it possible to use fc6 cd/dvd for
> upgrading my fc5?

Just boot off the CD-ROM select upgrade when it asks you and off it will
go. It only updates you as far as FC6 from the CD so there will be quite
a lot of further updates by now which yum will handle.