Re: F6 -> F8 on cdrom system?

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:44:33 +0100, Huub wrote:

Hi,

I would like to upgrade a system from F6 to F8, but it has a CDROM, no
DVD. Is it possible to use the LiveCD for this or is there another
solution?

Thanks.

I don't think FedoraLive fits on a CD, it's just slightly over the limit
or it was when I tried the Test version. However if fits on a USB Flash
drive as long as it's 1G or larger. Fedora updates are always
problematic, it's always better to do a clean install to a separate
partition.

As for F8, you should hold off. F8 is the most radical version that
they've done in a very long time. On the one hand it looks to be very
promising. It's much faster than earlier versions. RH has been getting
slower and slower ever since RH 8. They started to turn it around in FC 7
and there is a huge improvement in F8. The wireless also is much
improved, I was just in an airport yesterday. My partner had his Core2
laptop with him with (he has XP on it). I plugged in a 64 Bit F8 Live USB
Flash key and booted F8 and there were all of the available WiFi
networks,I clicked on one and we were on the Internet. It also displayed
his NTFS partitions which I was able to mount with one click in Nautilus.
That's the good news.

Now for the bad news, it's very very buggy. Here are the big ones that
I've encountered. Evolution corrupts the Address Book. The version of
Evolution in F8 crashes when you do a Search on Any Field. It seems to
modify the database so that you can't go back to an earlier version. When
I tried to open the corrupted database in the Address Book in F7 it
crashed immediately. Fortunately I had a backup. I tried the exercise of
opening the good version in F8 several times, it corrupts it every time.

The networking is also busted. On one of my machines with two ethernet
cards it only brings up one even though both are configured to come up at
boot time.

Another problem is that VMware won't start on it because of a GCC version
issue. It's not the kernel, both F7 and F8 use 2.6.23.x. F7 works F8
doesn't.

Finally gpilot is still broken. Hot syncing a Treo got broken by and
early update in F7 and it's still broken in F8. The last version where it
worked was FC6. The problem is a udev issue. The bug has been open for a
fairly long time with no sign of progress. Ubuntu has dealt with the Udev
changes so syncing a Treo still works in Gutsy Gibbon.

Unless you want to be a beta tester you should wait a couple of months
before you switch to F8.

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