Hello eveyone and thanks so much for reading...

I wanted to know if the Updates that you download from redhat will upgrade my fedora core 1 to fedora core 2 via the Up2Date program?

I have downloaded the ISOs of FedoraCore 2, I just don't know if its worth the reinstall. I do have to say that I have really nothing on my system because I have been learning from it and I still see many reinstalls in my near future...

Well thanks for the help...

Cheers

Sincerely,

Kevin in Alaska

hello!

it's better to make a fresh install of fedora core 2 because there are some files that will not be corectly changed with an udate.

cheers, boby

Thanks for all of your GREAT help! =) CHEERS!

If you already have the FC2 CD's and you are going to wipe out your partition(s) anyway...why not just use the CD's and try an upgrade? What do you have to lose? That's the attitude that I took and everything went just fine. There are a few major package upgrades (XFree-->xorg and kernel 2.6) but most of the changes are no worse than updating rpms much like one does with yum, apt or up2date. I had to edit xorg.conf and make one change (Option "XkbRules" "xfree86", changed xfree86 to xorg). This post may help you Upgrading FC1 to FC2 . I also recomplied a 2.6.6 kernel using the config file from the new FC2 kernel and reinstalled my nvidia drivers. After that, I updated a few non-Fedora packages from freshrpms using synaptic and I was done. Whole upgrade took less than 2hrs including compiling the huge kernel.

Yeah, most people say that a fresh install is always better but how many of them actually tried an upgrade first? Looking at this forum, it seems that many people are having problems with fresh install too. I would suggest you try the upgrade with the CD's and if that fails, do the fresh install. Don't use yum apt or up2date to do the upgrade because that does not appear to work well.

My reasoning was similar...why not simply try the upgrade...and if it doesn't work well, just do a fresh reinstall. I was surprised, however, by how long the upgrade seemed to be taking...it was predicting ~4 hours to install the packages! I interrupted the install and did a fresh installation...that took a little over an hour. All of my data fit on a floppy. It did take some time to get yum configured for fc2 (more than the 3 hour difference to figure things out...but I did learn alot!)...then getting all of the add-on packages I installed (and then some.....java and the mozilla plugin...woo-hoo!) took another hour or two to track down. I guess I would have had to have put in the time figuring out the repository issues for fc2 after an update, anyway.