Choosing an approach to Fedora upgrades.

Beartooth beartooth at adelphia.net
Mon Sep 27 14:41:34 UTC 2004


On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 08:54:35 -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote:

> You don't mention the procedure that I use.  I have two RAID devices
> that I use for root filesystems (including /home).  At any given time,
> one of them is the production system, and the other one is usually the
> previous version of Red Hat Linux/Fedora Core.  When the time comes to
> "upgrade", I do a fresh install on the "non-production" device, which
> becomes the new production system.  Then I selectively copy files and
> directories from the previous system to the new one.  Since the old
> system stays around for a long time, there's next to no chance that I'll
> forget to migrate anything.

Is a primitive version of that feasible? I have two separate machines
behind the same router, and do something similar; but I'm nobody's
technoid, and don't even have them networked. I'm wondering if I (or
anybody in similar circumstances) could cobble together a way to make
these two old clunkers pass files back and forth -- configurations,
bookmarks, etc. -- without two or three years' work learning enough
computer science to set up a real LAN ...

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Beartooth Autodidact, curmudgeonly codger learning linux
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