Trying to upgrade FC3 to FC6. Should I install over FC3?
 

I'm trying to upgrade & install Fedora Core 6 from a system that has Fedora Core 3. Is that possible? And how can I keep my files from FC3? Should I go buy a Flash drive? I'm afraid I'll lose all those files in the Linux drive if I install FC6 over FC3, just like you could install a different version of Windows over another before XP appeared.

BTW, I just bought a magazine with FC6 cd from UK.

PS Why won't they pre-install Linux instead of Windows? Freaking Windows licensing perks perhaps? :scratch:

Maybe Redhat should sue MS for monopolizing most of the tech sector? RH deserves their fair share. :)

Thank you.
Bryan

during the installation you can tell fedora which partitions you wish to format. assuming you installed it well originally and have a seperate dedicated /home partition, just tell it not to format that partition and you'll be fine. if it's all on one partition you can try asking it to upgrade to fc6, but there's a limit as to how sucesfuoll that would be as that's skipping 2 whole versions in between, which means a *lot* of things are different.

as for RH deserving market share? RH have vast tracks of market share on the server side... taking over desktops is just a pain in the ass.

I have now the same harddrive used on all FC versions since FC2 and I always kept my personal files. The /home folder is set as separate partition, an like acid_kewpie mentioned, format all the rest except this one and you will be fine.
Another thing I do is remove all hidden files and folders or other config files withing my /home/boby/ folder, I mean for example .gnome, .kde, .mozilla, etc.

You will loose all installed applications because they are installed usually in the system partitions, but documents, music, and all your private stuff won't be removed as long as they are in /home and it's a separate partition.

Note: A backup is always safe :)