What are the limitations of preupgrade

[Bill Davidsen]

Gordon Messmer wrote:
> On 11/03/2012 10:07 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> The bottom line appears to be 13->15->17, at most two versions at a
>> time.
>
> I don't know of any reason you can't go from 13->16.  Going directly to 17 is
> only problematic because of the /usr merge, since anaconda needs to handle that.
>
>> And it's going to be really ugly, because GNOME went away, or at
>> any rate the name was jacked up and something utterly different put in,
>> so I will have to migrate users to the nearest thing, XFCE.
>
> The nearest thing is probably Cinnamon, which is available in F17. Cinnamon is
> an alternative GNOME shell, which mostly resembles GNOME 2.  That said, I don't
> think there's anything specifically wrong with the GNOME Shell.  My mom uses
> it.  A number of my friends use it.  I use it.  Only a few people that I know
> specifically don't like it.
>
>> I think the easy way is to drop in an SSD for root and clean install,
>> then recustomize and mount the pieces. Maybe plug in a spare 8TB RAID on
>> the eSATA and take another backup, I have two remote backups, but
>> restoring over Gbit network will take way too long if I must.
>
> Yes, clean installs are going to be the most reliable installation method, and
> backups are always recommended.
>
Restores are hard, very long time to do one.

>> Thanks for the pointers, it would appear that changing the network
>> device names and putting something totally different in while still
>> calling it GNOME is going to make the upgrade, or any automated upgrade
>> past the changes, challenging on anything more than a simple desktop.
>
> The network device name is also optional.  If you boot with the kernel arg
> "biosdevname=0", you won't get that behavior.
>
I changed it in the config file, but I wish the fix to base name on MAC was 
included in the distro as an option, since that's useful on servers where board 
location might not be constant.

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