Upgrading to F6 from F2

pmorg · 06-10-2007, 01:46 PM

I have a laptop setup to boot Fedora 2 or (gag me...) WIN98 when I need it. WIN98 uses the first two partitions on the hard drive and Fedora 2 uses 3 others. I'm using Fedora 6 on another machine and would like to upgrade my laptop to F6, but don't want to lose my documents, bookmarks and configurations. Also I'm using Thunderbird for my email client and don't want to lose messages/configurations there.

Can I just use the F6 disks and upgrade, or will that lead to disaster?

Lenard · 06-10-2007, 02:27 PM

So backup everything you want to some media, CD/DVD, USB memory/hard drive or to someplace on a network. Do not forget the hidden .thunderbird directory and any other hidden directories you may want. If you have the the room copy the entire user directory to the media.

Upgrading from FC2 to FC6 is not a good idea, far to many changes along the way to be worthwhile. It is quicker and easier to backup everything you want and to a 'wipe and load' of the Linux partitions in the long run.

pmorg · 06-29-2007, 09:15 PM

So if I back up my entire user directory, install F6 and then copy the files to the home directory on the new installation that should do the trick? Do fiddling required?

I assume my fstab from F2 would work with F6.

Thanks for the response.

Lenard · 06-29-2007, 09:52 PM

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So if I back up my entire user directory, install F6 and then copy the files to the home directory on the new installation that should do the trick? Do fiddling required?

For the most part yes, but you may not want to copy the .gnome and/or .kde directories back.

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I assume my fstab from F2 would work with F6.

You should consider backing up the entire /etc directory (users paswords and other custom settings) and using the backup as a reference, this includes the fstab file. The new fstab file will be a bit different so use the old version as a reference, it should work if used however.