Re: upgrading from FC1

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Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:21:28 +0100

El jue, 11-11-2004 a las 22:12, Alexander Dalloz escribió:
> Am Do, den 11.11.2004 schrieb M Daniel R M um 21:37:
>
> > Sure. It must be that.
> > If I had asked a single -not multiple- question, maybe some people would
> > have answered.
> > I'll try to "RTFM" oopps! Sorry, this time there is no manual ...
>
> The answer you hope for simply can't be given seriously.

  I hoped for several answers (all them supposing it was possible to
upgrade from FC1 to FC3, although I was conscious of "the weird of the
situation". Please, feel free to check it in my "popular-lucky" mail,
named

"Ways to upgrade to FC3 and expected
results (Newbie looking for
answers)"

Thu, 11 Nov 2004 03:11:57 +0100
  
...not the first one of here (I didn't start this thread)

 (Anyway, despite it wasn't the true reason of my mail, I'm glad to make
all you laugh ...)

> If you want a
> short answer: don't try to upgrade from FC1 to FC3.

  Thanks. I'll cut and paste this (for me it would be really enough
coming from a guy that I KNOW that very possibly are in right) into my
mail to answer to myself.

> If you want the long
> version: read the list posting from over the last days. There were
> people upgrading from FC2 and had problems. Read the list archive when
> many upgraded to the fresh FC2 from previous FC1 and see the problems
> they had.

  Understood.

> The step FC1 -> FC3 has both hurdles.

  I'll take note.

> In addition read the
> release notes for FC2 and FC3 - yes, that is the manual for RTFM - and
> understand the specific notes about the changes from the previous
> release.

  Stop here! As I said before, I had read the release notes before. Also
read again. The only one reference I found was (copy & paste):
--------------------
"There have been issues observed when upgrading Red Hat Linux 7.<x>,
8.0, 9, and Fedora Core 1 systems running Ximian GNOME. The issue is
caused by version overlap between the official Red Hat Linux RPMs (or
the ones from the Fedora Project) and the Ximian RPMs. This
configuration is not supported. You have several choices in resolving
this issue:

1) You may remove Ximian GNOME from your system prior to upgrading to
Fedora Core.

2) You may upgrade your system, and then immediately reinstall Ximian
GNOME.

3) You may upgrade your system, and then immediately remove all
remaining Ximian RPMs, replacing them with the corresponding Fedora Core
RPMs.

You must resolve the version overlap using one of the above choices.
Failure to do so will result in an unstable GNOME configuration."
---------------------
 Both release notes -FC2 and FC3- says exactly the same at this point
(above).
 My FC1 system was then a fresh install, so I am running Gnome 2.4 (I
don't know if this version is Ximian Gnome or not, as I don't know how
has been the evolution of the Gnome Desktop understood in terms of
maintainers/developers groups, I have the DEFAULT Gnome desktop for FC1,
so I guess I don't have the Gnome Ximian version, do I ?? In this case,
I wouldn't have any reason to worry about with the above paragraphs...?

> If you are a Linux/Fedora freshman then do a fresh install.

   I've been using FC1 for several months, as I said at the top of my
forgotten-new-thread mail.

> If you have
> quite some experience and are able to debug things for most parts
> yourself, then with a full backup in background you might risk an
> upgrade and fix non working things afterwards. In worst case the new
> system will not boot and you will have to work with the rescue mode.

  Understood the idea.
  I feel I don't have enough experience for all that yet. It would be
too much...
>
> Alexander
>
  Thanks

Regards

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