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

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 06/13/09 10:45, Phil Barnett wrote:
> 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.
>


Well, I went ahead & did it (FC9 --> FC11 using preupgrade, nobody 
talked me out of it) & all is (mostly) well, I am still poking around & 
checking stuff out, but so far, so good. I am having a problem getting 
rxvt terminals to use the desired font (lucidatypewriter bold-r-sans 17 
pt, worked AOK under FC9, font is installed, & is used in various window 
titles as per .Xdefaults specification, Gnome desktop ....), any clues 
on that :-) ? TIA ....


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