Has anyone successfully updated FC3 with FC4?

Scott Talbot talbotscott at cox.net
Tue Jun 28 01:53:09 UTC 2005


Timothy Murphy wrote:

>Thomas Taylor wrote:
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>>You don't need to lose any settings when doing a fresh install.  If you
>>use separate partitions for /home and /root, then DON'T format them during
>>the install, all your settings will be preserved.
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>I understand why /home should be on a separate partition,
>but why /root ?
>(In my case /root is less than 2MB in size.)
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    Actually /root should never be a separate partition, because if you 
need to boot into level 1 root would have no home.

Scott




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