Re: Upgrade FC2 to FC3

From: noi (noi_at_siam.com)
Date: 10/22/04 

Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 15:00:06 GMT

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:13:21 -0400, Tom thoughtfully wrote:

> Good folks,
>
> After upgrading RH through the years, from 0.0? to RH9, with few problems,
> I did a new install of FC2.
> It took weeks to get everything configured properly. ( A server
> installation with web, email, samba, etc.)
> FC3 will be available soon, so is there an upgrade path for the Fedora
> Cores?
> I don't have a good way to save files for a new install, except floppies,
> and tons of stuff has been added and modified.
>
> Thanks for any advice.

I did an upgrade from FC1 to FC2. Almost everything worked correctly but
I had to manually change a few conf files. For example, for the yum.conf
there was a yum.conf.rpmnew to copy over the yum.conf. The FC2 release
notes and a FC1-FC2 tip list I found resolved all differences.

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