FC2 to FC3 upgrade via CD

[jerrybasham]

Hey folks.. I've been struggling a little with FC3 on
another hard drive (I change them out to experiment
with various distributions).. some of those struggles
are posted around here..

FC2 has been working great, and I was lamenting
the "legacy" plans as the Fedora people move on
to FC4, coming up in March, I gather.

So, I decided to see if FC3 would upgrade well over
my beautiful FC2 installation. Here is a detailed
report:


It went perfectly and I now have FC3 running just
as well as FC2 was. All I did was first to go yum
and upgraded everything (again, I've been doing
that on a regular basis), and then I popped the
FC3 disc #1 in and let 'er go as a text based upgrade.

(just kidding about "detailed report" :) ). I'm
very impressed! I keep reading that clean, fresh
installs are the way to go, but it finished the upgrade
in about 15 minutes, rebooted and here I am with
FC3 working great.

I'll come back and add to this if I discover anything
unusual as time goes by.

Meanwhile, I'm wondering if there are others who
have done this and who just don't post anything
about it because there's no problem to post about,
as compared to those who have posted about
problems doing an upgrade. :p

-- Jerry


Ok.. I just ran up2date and it installed 131 files,
including the new kernel (2.6.10-1.741-FC3). So
far everything is just fine and just as fast as FC2.

Btw, this is an old Gateway 2000, Celeron 900Mhz,
512Mb RAM, Intel i810 chipset (1 whole megabyte
of video RAM :) ).

[crackers]

Most people who post about installation/upgrades are posting because they have problems and are looking for help. If it works, then it just works (that's the beauty). Personally, since there was so much difference, I didn't want to tempt fate and just did a fresh install - but my systems are pretty "stock," so installs don't take all that much time, especially off an NFS mount.

[jerrybasham]

Yeah, I hear you about the majority who don't post here (or in Usenet) for the simple reason that everything is fine.

I have the luxury of having a couple of hard drives I switch out to fool around here and there with distros. The one that I put FC3 on I had to go in and edit /etc/x11/xorg.conf just to be able to have a working gui.

I did that and it came out ok, but I thought that tempting fate on this hard drive, the one that I just covered FC2 with, might be educational.
Well, it turned out to be (happily) boring. Everything works great, plus I have good ole FC2 isslue of Mozilla 1.7.3 in here instead of Firefox, and I do not like Firefox.

-- Jerry