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

[Ray Brunkow]

Phil Barnett wrote:
> 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
>
slightly off topic, but is it the odd or even numbered FCs that are 
"stable"?

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Raymond L. Brunkow
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Choong Sil Kwan TaekwonDo Federation


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