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

noi <noi@xxxxxxxx> wrote in
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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.

Man I have always used nvidia cards and have never had a problem with them.
That is why I stick with nvidia, they perform like no other and there is
tons of support for them. It would be great if the database, and my php
photo gallery would work, but maybe those items will be upgraded to some
new format and won't work. I for sure do not want to get locked into a
legacy application and be stuck with it. Maybe export the data if that is
possible and import it back again, not sure if it will work but it is an
idea to try.

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.

Yeah it is starting to look like no matter what I do, I really will need a
full backup of this system before doing anything. Hmmm, 250Gb WD IDE drive
at newegg.com for $79.99, one day sale. Can't beat that with a stick.
Standard price WD 250Gb IDE OEM is $83.99. I did manage to complete the
download last night and have all 5 CDs and the rescue CD iso images and
this upgrade can wait until I can come up with the hundred bucks to get a
backup drive.

Yeah that is what I am going to do noi. This is too important to just take
a chance on waxing like this. I will clone the original disk with Ghost and
then mess with the new one. Try upgrade first to see if it works. If it
does not or if there are too many problems with it, then install FC5 again,
fresh, and mount the original disk in there too for more storage and to
just pull my stuff back off of again, little by little, and when I get it
all or at least enough to be done with it, format the original disk and use
that for storage or a backup. Makes sense, you talked me into it and that
is really what I came here for in the first place. Thanks.
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