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

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 06/13/09 11:44, Ray Brunkow wrote:
> 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"?
>


even, I *think* .... to the extent that stable applies any more to 
Fedora (as per RH policy, no problema) ....

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