Upgrade advice

[Jack Craig]

just this week, i moved from f17 -> f21.

i found most config stuff under /etc for host and all /home/jackc for the
rest.
i slammed these to an offline drive, copying homdir back after the os was
ready.

naturally, YMMV...

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Ranjan Maitra <
maitra.mbox.ignored at inbox.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 10:20:44 -0400 "Jeffrey Ross" <jeff at bubble.org> wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for some suggestions on how to upgrade an older Fedora system
> > and keep as many of the configurations as possible for the applications
> > that are being used.
>
> The recommendation is to go through successive upgrades one after the
> other. However, I am very doubtful that one of these will not break. I seem
> to recall that F18 or F19 was the one which broke upgrades (I think it was
> F19).
>
> > Currently the system is running Fedora 16 and there are at least two
> > things that are preventing me from successfully running fedup or the yum
> > upgrade.
> >
> > The first stumbling block is that system was installed with separate
> > partitions for /, /boot, /var, & /usr and I think that the separation of
> /
> > and /usr is my biggest issue.
>
> I don't see why this should be an issue in a clean install. Are you
> wanting to keep /usr because you installed programs here? You may consider
> moving files that you created to a separate directory inside your home
> partition and then pushing it back. One possibility is to partition the
> current /usr and then move the programs to that new partition and keep that
> one in a new install.
>
> > The second issue is the system is setup with RAID1 on all partitions with
> > the bootloader (Grub ?) installed on both disks in the event of a disk
> > failure.
>
> I am not sure how RAID0 figures into this equation: I have not much
> knowledge of this, sorry.
>
> > I would like to avoid a new/clean install (I know I can preserve /home)
> if
> > at all possible.
>
> You can pretty much preserve whichever partition you want as long as it
> makes sense. For instance, you could keep a separate /usr/local partition
> where you could put your local installed programs. But this is after the
> fact so will not be helpful.
>
> > Any suggestions on how to proceed?
>
> It is for situations such as these that I wish that there was also a
> rolling-release version of Fedora.
>
> Many thanks and best wishes,
> Ranjan
>
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