Upgrading from F16 to F17 fails

[Andy Blanchard]

On 8 September 2012 18:38, Heinz Diehl <htd at fritha.org> wrote:

>
> Upgrading F16 to F17 from DVD is one f*cking mess. Seriously.
> Backup your data and do a fresh install. It will save you a lot of
> time and hairpull.
>

Better yet, when you do the re-install set up some disk partitions so you
can segregate the binaries from the data.  A separate /usr/ is a bit
problematic at the moment, but it's worthwhile creating dedicated
partitions for /home/ and /var/ - especially if you have website data, etc.
in the case of the latter.

Once you've done that, you can nuke all the other partitions and re-install
from scratch every time with the only pain being that you need to restore
your configs.  Unless there are major version changes between release,
that's usually just a case of restoring your old config file and restarting
the daemon, although occasionally you are better starting over from scratch.

Backing up everything before the re-install is still advisable though.

-- 
Andy

*The only person to have all his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe*
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