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

[Phil Barnett]

On 06/13/2009 12:07 PM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> 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 ....
>
>
I would do this just to see if there are any stragglers...

rpm -qa | grep -v fc9

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