Upgrading from FC1-> FC2

scook94 · #1 3rd May 2004, 12:07 AM

Ok so I'm new to Linux, but I'm finding I spend more time using FC1 than my XP Pro. I'm eagerly anticipating FC2 and am curious as to what it will do to my current FC1 set-up when I try to install it. Specifically, will I lose all the apps I've installed, the stuff I have in my home directory (images, mp3s, etc.) or will I be able to upgrade the OS without it affecting what has taken me a few weeks to get to a stage where I'm happy?

I apologise if this is a dumb newbie question, but hey, that's me all over...

Bana · #2 3rd May 2004, 02:06 AM

You will be able to do an upgrade install which will maintain all your current home directory files and folders and should leave your current installed programs intact. I have never done one before so I can't say anything out of experience.

BTW - Don't be so hard on yourself, this is an excellent question although one that might have been answered already somewhere else (did you try googling it?) I personally would like to know for sure whether your programs will still work (the ones that you installed).

scook94 · #3 3rd May 2004, 09:52 AM

I'm currently downloading FC2 Test3, so I'll give it a try with that and let you know if it works! I'll be able to back up my current install onto my XP drive first so if it goes belly up I can always restore it...

ghaefb · #4 3rd May 2004, 10:11 AM

Generaly good idea is to make a separate partition for your /home directory. In install process where you manage your partitions with DiskDruid make a partition for / and one for /home. (and also swap)
In this case when you install/upgrade new linux version, everything in /home will be there as you left it. But make sure when you install and use DiskDruid that you set mount point to /home where your /home partition is hda?, hdb?...

foolish · #5 3rd May 2004, 10:19 AM

Upgrading is only supported when you upgrade from one stable core to another stable core. Once you put a test release in there, you have to reinstall to get a clean, working system.

Of course, upgrading from a test release to core 2 is possible, but not something I would want to do. Stick to stable core releases people.

jejones3141 · #6 18th May 2004, 07:07 PM

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Originally posted by foolish
Stick to stable core releases people.

Amen. I upgraded from FC1 to FC2T3, and found that it stopped part way through, not linking vmlinuz et al. to the new versions, and wiping all Linux choices from the grub menu! Thank goodness I backed up beforehand. A straight install worked as expected.

Thoreau · #7 18th May 2004, 07:14 PM

I just upgraded Core 1 --> Core 2 no deal. the only thing i lost was my dektop setups eg, background, icons, font style, theme... not a big deal all programs work like a charm

BillLee · #8 22nd May 2004, 05:25 AM

O.k., what IS the "official" stance on this?

I have FC2T3 running (for the most part) and really do not want to do a full install since I have a reasonable amount of personal stuff there.

I want to go to the FC2 release that I picked up this morning.

How? Best?

Thanks.

Bill Lee

samwyse · #9 22nd May 2004, 09:16 AM

When I updated I got twice an error (media-error/insufficent disk space) and the installation stopped. I had 1,2 gigs of free space on the first time (, the second time I moved 800 megs to another drive. So I wonder if the installation needs twice the space.

I would have been in trouble if I didn't know how to use the rescue mode to move stuff to another partition. Luckily the installer would continue upgrading the packages from where it stopped.

Another annoyance was that everytime I needed to reboot from the installer it turned the harddrives off.

BTW, the installer still halts if I try to start it from my Philips CDRW2412 (it's done that since RH8).

BillLee · #10 22nd May 2004, 05:36 PM

Replying to my own post:

I did an upgrade from the FC2T3 -> FC2 and it seemed to work o.k. I checked the upgrade log and it nicely lists the packages it installed as well as the ones that it did NOT install. I compared that with the FC2T3 install log just to see and al matched up quite nicely. Now, of course, here's hoping the rpm naming conventions didn't hide a change that SHOULD have been upgraded! :-)

Regards,

Bill Lee

scroob · #11 24th May 2004, 03:52 PM

...you should REALLY do the media test before upgrading. If you don't, and your iso is corrupt, you might end up with a LOT of broken dependencies, making any upgrade impossible.

After re-installing FC2 i had the great idea, that it could maybe had been fixed with apt-get and fc2-sources in /etc/apt/sources.list. - Hrhr. No matter. Clean system rules.

DannyBoy · #12 28th May 2004, 04:44 PM

Hi I am a newbie to Linux in general and fedora in particular.

How do you actually do an "Upgrade" from FC1 to FC2? Do I still need to download all the FC2 CDs to do that or is there a short cut where I only download the changed objects? If I need to download all the CDs, how do I do it? Do I go thru the normal install routine and the system is smart enough to detect that I already have FC1 installed?

At the current state of FC2, do you advise me to upgrade since I have FC1 working beautifully already?

TIA!

foolish · #13 28th May 2004, 05:01 PM

Download the cds, use the upgrade option on the installer. That's the way that will work. Any other way might work, but is as likely not to.