Upgrade to Fedora Core 4

[mkoljack]

I have been a user of Fedora Core 3. It worked from the get go (hardware detection, software, etc). It just works great. I don't believe I am good material to be a FC4 tester. However, I will want to install FC4 when the final release occurs.

Question: When that happens, will it be best to upgrade FC3 to FC4 or just do a clean FC4 install in a new partition and copy things over from my FC3 home directory, etc? Also, will the filesystem still be ext3?

Thank You.

[imdeemvp]

That really depends......so of us tweak our systems to much....and an upgrade may be just asking for a headache. What I have done is do a fresh installation after a quick back up of some documents, music, pics, and bookmarks.

When fedora 3 was released some users reported having major issues after the upgrade was performed. So it may work or may not....it all depends.

[Jman]

FC4 has frozen (http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/) so all you can do is fix bugs. Better off clean installing FC4 final, and later doing a test release if you feel like it.

File system still ext3 on lvm.

[Nebuchadneza]

About upgrading: It really depends. I don't think that it should be a big problem. On my laptop I installed FC 1. When FC2 came out I updated it and lately updated again to FC3. The system is still running without problems.

Updating from FC1 to FC2 was not so easy, because the major kernel change. But updating FC2 to FC3 wasn't very difficult. At the moment I am compiling the kernel myself, so this is no issue at all.

[mkoljack]

Thanks everyone. Sounds like the safest and best route is to do a clean install of the final Fedora 4 when it is released. I prefer to start with a working system and if it's anything like FC3 out of the box, it should be a great experience.

Thanks again everyone.

[c4raku]

i wonder...

should we say out of the burner instead of out of the box

[drunkahol]

i wonder...

should we say out of the burner instead of out of the box

Not if you do network installs!

They're MUCH faster (especially with a 1Gbit crossover connection) . . . unless of course you find a bug with network installs like I did :(

Duncan