Upgrading to Fedora?

siphi · 02-18-2004, 02:52 PM

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone here has upgraded from Redhat9 to Fedora lately. Because I was considering downloading Fedora soon to try it out but want to know a few things firstly before I try it out. Ok here goes...

1) Does fedora support all hardware thats currently supported in Redhat9?

2) Will it copy directly over my current Redhat9 Partition and not affect my windows partition?

2a) Will it use my current settings from Redhat and copy over my home files?

3) Does it have better sound support? (I'm really annoyed with the "one app at a time" being able to use the soundcard.)

Thats it for now really, If i have any more ill post em below

XavierP · 02-18-2004, 03:07 PM

[I}Moving to the Fedora forum. I think you'll get the answers there.[/i]

rberry88 · 02-18-2004, 03:14 PM

I upgraded from RH9 to Fedora a little over a month ago and it was quite seamless. I just put the Fedora install cd in and it detected my current RH9 partitions and asked if I wanted to upgrade. I chose yes and the Fedora distro was installed basically over the Red Hat install and left all my files in tact. I have recently wiped my hard drives and installed Fedora by itself and it doesn't seem to be as sluggish as it did before on the same hardware.

rberry88

menlinux · 02-18-2004, 03:38 PM

I did the upgrade last week, everything was fine (all setting were kept) except the following tweaks.

1) Samba 3 - I recreated a new smb.conf from smb.conf.rpmnew because "share=user" didn't work.

2) up2ate - It was soooo slow. I edited "sources" file to access the mirror sites

3) Pine - It got wiped out. I downloaded the new recompiled version of rpm for Fedora.

cybrjackle · 02-18-2004, 04:02 PM

You could try apt

Quote:

Hi,

For those of you who like/use apt and want to either upgrade to FC2 test 1
using it or simply be able to use it once FC2 test 1 is installed, I've set
up a repository on ayo.freshrpms.net :

http://ayo.freshrpms.net/

# Fedora Linux 2 Test
rpm http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/test/i386 core
#rpm-src http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/test/i386 core

The above should work shortly, if it doesn't yet when you try, just use
ayo.us.freshrpms.net temporarily instead of the main, faster, ayo server.

I haven't played around with FC2 test 1 & apt yet, and IIRC apt may need to
actually be rebuilt against the included rpm in order to work...

Matthias

I have not tried this my self, but will do it some time on a test system.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedor.../msg00321.html

siphi · 02-19-2004, 03:24 AM

Thanks everyone, I've the cd's downloaded (1hr with cable yay:>) but must buy some cd-r's :< . Anyone know about the sound issue?

cybrjackle · 02-19-2004, 06:27 AM

sound,

I've played music in "xmms" and played the game "enemey-territory" at the same time, sounds fine to me. In slackware & fedora.

siphi · 02-19-2004, 02:27 PM

cool. What driver do you use?

cybrjackle · 02-19-2004, 03:08 PM

I have an audigy2 in fedora in standard uses a "audigy" oss driver, under slack I used emu10k1 from cvs.