Upgrade from Fedora 5 to Fedora 11 with a fedora 11 live CD
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Upgrade from Fedora 5 to Fedora 11 with a fedora 11 live CD
Hi,
I just wanted to upgrade to fedora 11 from the current version 5 with the help of a live cd. I dont want to loose the previous configuration files. Somebody suggested me to upgrade everything except the / directory. How do you do that? I also have a retarded WINXP partition on the same drive which I dont wanna loose.
Thank You !
Hi,
I just wanted to upgrade to fedora 11 from the current version 5 with the help of a live cd. I dont want to loose the previous configuration files. Somebody suggested me to upgrade everything except the / directory. How do you do that? I also have a retarded WINXP partition on the same drive which I dont wanna loose.
Thank You !
I am pretty sure you cannot "upgrade" from Fedora 5 to 11 in one hop. You need to perform a fresh install.
The official advice on any Fedora upgrade is still to do a clean install (even going from X to X+1). Jumping multiple version is even more problematic than upgrading just one version. Beyond that, starting with F7 Fedora names all drives (sata or pata) by the sdX designation. So going from preF7 to post F7 tends to end badly. Essentially the installer gets lost when converting hdX to sdX, particularly in systems with both sata and pata drives.
as chaitanya noted, a fresh Fedora 11 install would detect "all" installations, including your Fedora 5, so unless you instruct the install otherwise, you would probably end up with XP, F5 and F11 - you need to ensure the new install replaces the old Fedora 5 unless you want to keep it...
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