Upgrade FC11->14

[mike cloaked]

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:
> I have a laptop running fc11, with the non-boot partition encrypted LUKS. Based
> on one bad experience with another system, and one fail with a VM, just booting
> the DVD and asking it to upgrade is not the way to a working system. While I can
> certainly backup /home and reinstall, there are a fair number of tweaks and I'd
> rather not.
>
> Any thoughts?

A few weeks ago I upgraded a system from f11 to f14 - given the
upgrade three times with tweaks vs the clean install and tweaks
options I felt the latter would be less time intensive - so I made
backups of /home and all the key areas of /var and /etc and did a new
install - then did the tweaks after the install and copied back user
areas from backup - the new system was running about two and a half
hours after the install - and I am convinced it would have been a
great deal longer trying to upgrade through f12, f13 and on to f14 -
with a major jump through three versions I think the clean install is
the better option but ultimately the decision is yours!

(Actually even when upgrading from one version to the next I do this
same clean install approach and I have not been bitten by major
problems as a result - even with copying and saving imap files as well
as other user data - though I have seen quite a few people fall into
problems doing pre-upgrade/upgrades rather than the clean install
method if the help postings on this list are anything to go by!)

-- 
mike c