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Old 04-03-2007, 02:57 AM   #1
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Best way to upgrade from FC5 to FC6


Hello everybody,

I'd like to post a question about the migration from Fedora Core 5 and Fedora Core 6.

I have a system running FC5, with all the packages installed via yum (meaning they're present in the distribution) and would like to update to FC6.

What is the best and the safest way to upgrade?

- Downloading the packages using wget and installing using rpm
- Turn off the system and boot froma FC6 installation CD?
- Other...?

If I upgrade, will I have to configure all my active services again or will they be up and running with the configuration they had on FC5?

thank you
have a nice day
 
Old 04-03-2007, 08:24 AM   #2
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Easiest is just to install from a FC6 DVD "on top" of your (backed up, of course) current installation. Almost everything should work as it was, but you may need to change some service configuration files.

Note that FC7 should be released next month, so you might want to wait for that and jump from FC5 to FC7.
 
Old 04-03-2007, 08:45 AM   #3
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You may use yum to update FC5 to FC6. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq

However, I don't know if the upgrade procedure will cause you any problems... If you didn't use external repos for updating core rpms you shouldn't have any problem. Some configuration files might need reconfiguration though. Bakcup your data and try it.
 
  


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