Upgrade guidance

[Derek Atkins]

Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> writes:

> Due to an installer regression in Fedora 9 that has yet to be fixed for
> F10 (installer pukes on Samsung hard drives that have a '/' in their
> model name), I had to install F8 on a box last week, and opted to go
> straight to rawhide from there. It worked fine after sorting out some
> things manually to get the sysvinit to upstart bits right, but was
> certainly not entirely straight-forward, and this was a minimal install
> to begin with. So yeah, FC6 straight to F9... Not recommended, unless
> you *really* know what you're doing. Incremental upgrades from 6 to 7 to
> 8 to 9 might be less pain and suffering.

Hmm..  I wonder if this is the same issue I had with F9 on a
system with four seagate barracuda drives where it wouldn't
read the disks so crashed in the early installer with a python
backtrace?

Anyways, I've successfully used yum on multiple systems to upgrade.
But I always go one step at a time.  Most recently I took one
machine from F7 -> 8 -> 9.   Unfortunately I suspect I'll have
a hard time bringing my FC3 system up to date that way. ;)

-derek
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