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From: Jeff Silverman on 9 Sep 2007 21:43
I am running FC6 and I have the rhnsd running to keep my rpms up to date.

How do I upgrade this machine to FC7? Is that even a good idea?

Many thanks,


Jeff Silverman
From: Chill Out on 11 Sep 2007 14:40
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:43:56 +0000, Jeff Silverman wrote for every to
trash:

> I am running FC6 and I have the rhnsd running to keep my rpms up to
> date.
>
> How do I upgrade this machine to FC7? Is that even a good idea?
>
> Many thanks,
>
>
> Jeff Silverman

If your FC6 is stable then there's no reason to upgrade until it's no
longer supported or you need an application that only works with FC7.

Normally, I skip release upgrades, ie, FC1-FC3, Fc3-FC5, except FC5-Fc6
because of my hardware changes and FC6-FC7 upgrade because of a software
issue.
From: General Schvantzkoph on 11 Sep 2007 23:42
On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:43:56 +0000, Jeff Silverman wrote:

> I am running FC6 and I have the rhnsd running to keep my rpms up to
> date.
>
> How do I upgrade this machine to FC7? Is that even a good idea?
>
> Many thanks,
>
>
> Jeff Silverman

Do an install of F7 to a different partition, that way you can always
revert to FC6. When you do the install make sure you pick the advanced
boot options when you are installing the boot loader and then install the
loader on the root partition, not the MBR. Add a chain load to F7 in the
grub.conf in your old distro.
title FC7
rootnoverify (hd1,1)
chainloader +1
From: Bruce Coryell on 12 Sep 2007 06:40
General Schvantzkoph wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:43:56 +0000, Jeff Silverman wrote:
>
>
>>I am running FC6 and I have the rhnsd running to keep my rpms up to
>>date.
>>
>>How do I upgrade this machine to FC7? Is that even a good idea?
>>
>>Many thanks,
>>
>>
>>Jeff Silverman
>
>
> Do an install of F7 to a different partition, that way you can always
> revert to FC6. When you do the install make sure you pick the advanced
> boot options when you are installing the boot loader and then install the
> loader on the root partition, not the MBR. Add a chain load to F7 in the
> grub.conf in your old distro.
> title FC7
> rootnoverify (hd1,1)
> chainloader +1

I recently went from FC6 to F7 on one of my machines (as a clean install
rather than upgrade). One thing I noticed is that, even with IDE
drives, F7 labels them as sda rather than hda - that might cause
problems in an upgrade scenario.
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