The upgrade is complete..

[Michael Ben-Gershon]

WipeOut wrote:
> I have been putting off upgrading my RH9 desktop for a while now, but 
> yesterday I climbed into it..
> 
> Copied my entire home directory and other data to another PC then did a 
> fresh install.. The in just copied back my .mozilla and .gaim 
> direcrities into my new how directory and everything was there, all my 
> bookmarks, mailinglist rules.. everything.. It was the most painless 
> upgrade of a desktop I have ever done.. then just copied back all my data..
> 
> I updated the system using yum and my local mirror site, and then added 
> the updated gmone-panel to get the drawres working..
> 
> Finally I added the latest JRE and Flash plugins to mozilla..
> 
> I am sure there will be a few apps that I am going to have to reinstall 
> but all in all it was a piece of cake..
> 
> I recommend anyone who is still hanging back on installing FC1 to go for 
> it..

Well, my upgrade was far more painful. I have been running a RH7.2 system
for a long time now, and it has had all kinds of upgrades added over
time, making it very non-standard. I initially tried upgrading, which
left my system in a complete mess! I restored the whole system and
did a clean install. I then gradually moved over my old stuff. I found that
my quite acceptable P4-1500 with 512M and an old Radeon graphics card was
just not up to the new desktop environment (which I find very pleasant to
use) so I had to do a major hardwarre upgrade as well. This has gone
pretty smoothly, although my rather ancient Buslogic SCSI card does not
seem to behave well on the new motherboard, so I am ditching it as well
in favour of more modern equipment.

I have now got almost everything working pretty well, including moving
over my old apache installation to the new version.

I can now say that I am very happy indeed with Fedora Core 1, despite all
the trouble I had initially. I guess that if I had upgraded the system a
bit more often I would have been saved much of the misery I had this time.
Hopefully the new up2date utility will make this quite easy and painless!

Michael Ben-Gershon
mybg at netvision.net.il