Re: Upgrade to Fedora13 from Fedora 8

2010-06-10 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 13:46 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Surely virtually everyone nowadays has enough room on their disks > for a spare partition to be reserved for a new Fedora version? This requires thinking of this in advance. I think most people have existing partitions that fill their ent

Re: Upgrade to Fedora13 from Fedora 8

2010-06-10 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu June 10 2010, Marvin Kosmal wrote: > HI > > I have FC12 and am thinking of going to FC13. > > Will I have the same options? > > I was thinking FC13 would overlay FC12 making it FC13... Is that not > going to happen.?? With the same partitions.. > > FC 12 is ONLY thing on drive.. > No,

Re: Upgrade to Fedora13 from Fedora 8

2010-06-10 Thread Bill Davidsen
vijay bhide wrote: > I downloaded Fedora 13 preupgrade which is my /boot directory of my existing > Fedora 8 installation.I booted to preupgrade image to start upgrade.I reached > a stage where 4installation options were offered.One was to remove completely > existing installations ,second was r

Re: Upgrade to Fedora13 from Fedora 8

2010-06-10 Thread Timothy Murphy
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > You aren't going to be able to go directly from Fedora 8 to Fedora 13 > (without a LOT of pain). > > You are probably better off saving your data and your config and then > doing a fresh install. While I agree that it is a complete waste of time to try going from F-8 to

Re: Upgrade to Fedora13 from Fedora 8

2010-06-10 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 00:30:40 -0600, Linuxguy123 wrote: > Why do you say this ? Because there were some significant rpm related changes along the way and for at least one point an upgrade needed an up to date version of that release to go to the next release. Skipping over that jump would

Re: Upgrade to Fedora13 from Fedora 8

2010-06-10 Thread Sam Varshavchik
Marvin Kosmal writes: HI I have FC12 and am thinking of going to FC13. Will I have the same options? I was thinking FC13 would overlay FC12 making it FC13... Is that not going to happen.?? With the same partitions.. No, this will be a fairly simple upgrade. pgpqRRaDdaJbR.pgp Descriptio

Re: Upgrade to Fedora13 from Fedora 8

2010-06-09 Thread Marvin Kosmal
HI I have FC12 and am thinking of going to FC13. Will I have the same options? I was thinking FC13 would overlay FC12 making it FC13... Is that not going to happen.?? With the same partitions.. FC 12 is ONLY thing on drive.. TIA. Marvin On 6/9/10, Linuxguy123 wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-10

Re: Upgrade to Fedora13 from Fedora 8

2010-06-09 Thread Linuxguy123
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 00:52 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 05:48:18 +, > vijay bhide wrote: > > I downloaded Fedora 13 preupgrade which is my /boot directory of my > > existing Fedora 8 installation.I booted to preupgrade image to start > > upgrade.I reached a stag

Re: Upgrade to Fedora13 from Fedora 8

2010-06-09 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 05:48:18 +, vijay bhide wrote: > I downloaded Fedora 13 preupgrade which is my /boot directory of my existing > Fedora 8 installation.I booted to preupgrade image to start upgrade.I reached > a stage where 4installation options were offered.One was to remove complet

Upgrade to Fedora13 from Fedora 8

2010-06-09 Thread vijay bhide
I downloaded Fedora 13 preupgrade which is my /boot directory of my existing Fedora 8 installation.I booted to preupgrade image to start upgrade.I reached a stage where 4installation options were offered.One was to remove completely existing installations ,second was removing existing linux inst