Re: Upgrade Fedora Core 3 to Fedora Core 5 Help please

Ohmster wrote:

I run a nice Fedora Core 3 machine currently with servers on a 24/7 ADSL
connection. Machine specs:

Pentium III Coppermine, 800Mhz
1.5Gb SDRAM
GeForce FX 5500
Western Digital 200Gb IDE Hard Drive
CDR Drive
Floppy Drive
Soundblaster AWE 64 Gold, ISA
2 PCI NICs, 1 for ADSL modem, 1 for hub to home LAN

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I run this machine 24/7 and it is always reliable but am missing out on
some of the nice new features that I hear about with Fedora Core 5. Also,
the gnome-updater really does not offer much in the way of updates
anymore, so I want to update to Fedora Core 5. I am using wget to snag
the iso files as I write this.

What new features are you concerned about??? The fact that gnome-updater
does not offer much in the way of upgrades may be a good thing, all the
bugs have been worked out(maybe).


Question: Will an update from fc3 to fc5 go smooth? Will it break any of
the stuff that I have in place already? I know that this is an almost
impossible question to answer accurately but I would just like some
feedback from anyone that has already updated fedora.

The upgrade may not go well, many many horror stories about video problems
with nVidia and ATI cards. Many have been fixed, but you need to apply a
bunch of updates right away. Many have reported multiple versions of the
installed packages (left over FC3/4 and the updated FC5 duplicates).

As a warning, your isa sound card may not work after the upgrade.

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Feedback please. Thanks.

As always the best thing to do is backup everything of importance and do a
fresh clean install.


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