Best way to upgrade from FC5 to FC8

[Cassian Luppu]

2008/3/4, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>:
>
> On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 14:11 +0100, Cassian Luppu wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I´m using FC5 in one of my desktop computers. Yes, I do know it is
> > pretty old-fashioned, and I´m about to upgrade to FC8.
>
>
> It's F8 actually. The "core" terminology was dropped after FC6.


Ups, yeah, I always forget that one :)


> I just wanted to ask you guys what is the best way to get it running
> > with the less problems possible, I know I´ll have to face some of
> > then.
> >
> > I guess that setting up the FC8 repositories and yum upgrade wouldn´t
> > be the best way, would it?
>
>
> I'd advise against it. Fedora is not guaranteed to work even doing an
> upgrade from one version to the next (I've done it but frequently I find
> myself doing a fresh install after a while).



Exactly, I did knew that, I just one a confirmation :-)


It's almost certainly
> easier to back up your user data (/home, /etc, /usr/local, ...) and
> install from scratch. Take a list of your RPMs as well ('rpm -qa --last
> > LIST') just in case.

poc



The problem here is that the /home/user I want to keep is 16GB, so it's
going to be a pain to trasnfer it. I blame myself for not creating the
partion when I installed the system

Any other advice?
Thank you very very much
C
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