Re: Upgrade Fedora Core 3 to Fedora Core 5 Help please
- From: noi <noi@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 18:53:48 GMT
On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 05:09:31 +0000, Ohmster wrote this:
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
My current distro works fine, I use apache to host 3 FQDNs, vsftpd for ftp
access, and ssh for remote login. This distro works great, I have all the
bugs worked out and everything really works good. I have various little
tweaks in place to customize it like firestarter firewall to make IP
masquerade work, wondershaper to control bandwidth for http and ftp
transfers, a setterm line in rc.local to make the monitor blank and power
down in CLI and a setleds line to make the numlock key light in CLI, other
stuff like numlockx to make numlock work in X, etc. Xwindows with Gnome
and KDE. php and mysql are installed for the Coppermine Photo Gallery that
I run from apache for my family website. I do not run awstats or phpbb2
anymore as my Redhat 9 machine got hacked through apache somehow and I
think that those two programs provided a way in as apache was pretty much
taken over by spammers, had to shut it down, wipe, and install Fedora.
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.
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.
I think that the best possible thing to do would be to purchase another
200Gb drive and clone the drive over with ghost or some other method, then
try and update the clone to see what happens, but I am pretty poor right
now and don't have the extra money to buy another drive right now. If this
really is a dangerous thing to do, then maybe I can do a few extra jobs
and save the money for another drive to do that with, but does anyone
think that the releases are so vastly different that most of my stuff
won't work anymore? I really do need these websites up and running and to
have them down for weeks while I try to sort it out and fix things that
don't work anymore would be a real problem.
So what do you all think about the upgrade? Smooth or potential for
disaster? Format and install fresh would be a real nice way to go and I
may ultimately do that if this upgrade would not go smooth. Clone the
drive, install fc5 on the new drive, and then, little by little, bring
stuff over from the old drive but that would take a long time for me to
work out, no doubt.
Feedback please. Thanks.
There are some problems with the Xorg, Nvidia and ATI. Other than that
IMHO the apps you are using should still work. Make sure you install the
Legacy libs for backward compatibility.
It's good policy to back up your system before upgrading. Maybe you can
get away with backing up the /home, /usr, /etc and other special folders
on a couple of CDRs, making sure you're also including hidden files. No
matter how many times I backup the system I always miss some files.
.
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