[Leaplist] Upgrade from Fedora 9 to 11 (or to CentOS 5.3) ....

[Phil Barnett]

On 06/12/2009 08:30 AM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>
>
> .... I am interested in upgrading this box (2 GHz Athlon 64X2, 2 GB 
> RAM, desktop) from Fedora 9 64-bit (fully patched up as of last 
> Sunday) to either Fedora 11 or CentOS 5.3. I found mention of the 
> PreUpgrade package which is installed (preupgrade.noarch, 1.1.0-1.fc9, 
> installed). I did a bit of googling (Fedora preupgrade CentOS) & got 
> conflicting views on upgrading more than 1 version (1 link 
> definitively said you could go from FC9 to FC11 using preupgrade, & 
> linked to RH website for backup) & on going from FC9 to CentOS 5.3. 
> Does anybody have any 1st hand experience w/ using preupgrade to do 
> upgrades of more than 1 version or for changing from Fedora to CentOS 
> ? If so, could you comment yea or nay on this idea :-) ? Thanks in 
> advance.

I think you will blow up your machine if you try to go from Fedora to 
CentOS. But it's just a guess.

I upgraded several machines from 10 to 11 and only one went badly, so it 
got a fresh install. There was nothing on it worth recovering, so no big 
deal.

That one was an upgrade from 9 to 11, however it doesn't answer your 
question because I upgraded to 10 in the middle.

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