Re: Pre-Upgrade



On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 11:04 -0500, John Aldrich wrote:
Silly Question, can Pre-Upgrade be used to upgrade a much older version of
Fedora to the latest and greatest version? I've got FC6 and normally do a
wipe and reinstall, but would love to just upgrade. :-)

I think I know the answer, but confirmation would be appreciated. :-)
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not a silly question at all

don't even try

Assuming that you have reasonably fast bandwidth, the way to do it is to
do 'stepped' upgrades 6 => 7 => 8 => 9 => 10 (you can use Yum to get you
to F9 and then Pre Upgrade for 9 to 10 if you want).

See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq

There are notes to deal with each step

Craig

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