Upgrade to Fedora13 from Fedora 8

[Linuxguy123]

On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 00:52 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 05:48:18 +0000,
>   vijay bhide <bhidevb at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > I downloaded Fedora 13 preupgrade which is my /boot directory of my existing Fedora 8 installation.I booted to preupgrade image to start upgrade.I reached a stage where 4installation options were offered.One was to remove completely existing installations ,second was removing existing linux installatios,third was to compress existing Ubuntu 10.04 and the last one was to install on free space.In all the options I was prompted to create boot partition of 500MB.In my existing system I have Win XP on sda1 Mandriva on sda 5,Swap on sda 7,Fedora8 on sda 8 and Data(Fat) on sda 6,Ubuntu 9.1 on sda9,Ubuntu 10.04 on sda10.Grub is on MBR.and no boot partition.
> 
> You aren't going to be able to go directly from Fedora 8 to Fedora 13 (without
> a LOT of pain).
> 
> You are probably better off saving your data and your config and then doing
> a fresh install.

Why do you say this ?  

I'd like to see him back up his data and try.  He really has nothing to
lose.  If it doesn't work he can wipe the drive and do a fresh install.