[Wolves] RH -> Fedora - Upgrade path

[David Goodwin]

Mark Trotman wrote:
> O fount of all knowledge....
> 
> I'm currently running RH7.2 & 7.3 on various workstations here but would 
> like to upgrade to Fedora Core 1 (or perhaps Core 2, if I'm feeling 
> brave!). Does anyone here know if there is a direct upgrade path or do I 
> have to lose all the data and then load Fedora? I suppose I could buy a 
> new HDD and (initially) dual boot but hey!, I'm a sodding cheapskate.
> I can't find anything on the Fedora project pages. :-(
> 

FC2 has SELinux stuff in which will probably trip people up for a bit, 
as well as a more recent 2.6 based kernel, both could lead to 
bugs/features etc. It's normally best to wait for someone else to find 
the bugs in software.....


Why do you want to upgrade ? To get a nicer desktop ? I would expect the 
upgrade from 7.3 to Fedora to be quite major (almost like doing Win9X -> 
XP). It would probably be cleaner/easier to do a clean install and 
restore your personal files etc from a backup etc.



Personally I'll be sticking to slackware-current.

David.