FC1 to FC2 HowTo?

Ted Kaczmarek tedkaz at optonline.net
Sat Sep 11 11:10:14 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 17:27, Richard E Miles wrote:
> > Has anyone put together a howto to upgrade an FC1 system to an FC2 system.
> > 
> > I have to do an upgrade shortly and it's been a long time since I did the
> > last one.  Unfortunately, I didn't bother to make notes of the problems I
> > ran into.  I do remember that there weren't many but I did have to wade
> > through some.
> > 
> > Gerry
> I would advise against an upgrade. The change from 2.4 kernels to 2.6 kernels
> and the overall update process is an iffy proposition. I know from personal
> experiance I was unable to get sound card to work as a user after an update.
> I would back up your current data and do a clean install.
> 
> -- 
> Richard E Miles
> Federal Way WA.
> registered linux user 46097
> 

I was able to do it, but it was not easy and the pains are many.
Good learning experience.

Ted





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