Upgrade to Fedora13 from Fedora 8

[Marvin Kosmal]

HI

I have FC12 and am thinking of going to FC13.

Will I have the same options?

I was thinking FC13 would overlay FC12 making it FC13...  Is that not
going to happen.??  With the same partitions..

FC 12 is ONLY thing on drive..

TIA.

Marvin


On 6/9/10, Linuxguy123 <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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