Fedora upgrade from 6 to 9

[Sundeep Pundamale]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 01:36:54PM +0300, Sundeep Pundamale wrote:
>> Can some one provide instructions to upgrade fedora 6 to fedora 9. What are 
>> the precautions that needs to be taken so as to not break the system and 
>> existing configurations.
> 
> Here's how I'd think about it: how would you get the system configuration
> and data back if the hard drive failed? At this level of update, you're
> probably best doing a clean install and then recreating your existing
> configuration. (Easiest to do if you have /home on a separate partition.)
> 

Thats the constraint i have. The linux box has apache, php, mysql,svn, 
openfire, openvpn, samba and many more applications running. Doing a 
fresh installation and reconfiguring all these applications would be a 
very time consuming task. Is there some other alternative that is more 
feasible rather than a fresh installation.

Thanks