just this week, i moved from f17 -> f21. i found most config stuff under /etc for host and all /home/jackc for the rest. i slammed these to an offline drive, copying homdir back after the os was ready.
naturally, YMMV... On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Ranjan Maitra < maitra.mbox.igno...@inbox.com> wrote: > On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 10:20:44 -0400 "Jeffrey Ross" <j...@bubble.org> wrote: > > > I'm looking for some suggestions on how to upgrade an older Fedora system > > and keep as many of the configurations as possible for the applications > > that are being used. > > The recommendation is to go through successive upgrades one after the > other. However, I am very doubtful that one of these will not break. I seem > to recall that F18 or F19 was the one which broke upgrades (I think it was > F19). > > > Currently the system is running Fedora 16 and there are at least two > > things that are preventing me from successfully running fedup or the yum > > upgrade. > > > > The first stumbling block is that system was installed with separate > > partitions for /, /boot, /var, & /usr and I think that the separation of > / > > and /usr is my biggest issue. > > I don't see why this should be an issue in a clean install. Are you > wanting to keep /usr because you installed programs here? You may consider > moving files that you created to a separate directory inside your home > partition and then pushing it back. One possibility is to partition the > current /usr and then move the programs to that new partition and keep that > one in a new install. > > > The second issue is the system is setup with RAID1 on all partitions with > > the bootloader (Grub ?) installed on both disks in the event of a disk > > failure. > > I am not sure how RAID0 figures into this equation: I have not much > knowledge of this, sorry. > > > I would like to avoid a new/clean install (I know I can preserve /home) > if > > at all possible. > > You can pretty much preserve whichever partition you want as long as it > makes sense. For instance, you could keep a separate /usr/local partition > where you could put your local installed programs. But this is after the > fact so will not be helpful. > > > Any suggestions on how to proceed? > > It is for situations such as these that I wish that there was also a > rolling-release version of Fedora. > > Many thanks and best wishes, > Ranjan > > ____________________________________________________________ > Can't remember your password? Do you need a strong and secure password? > Use Password manager! It stores your passwords & protects your account. > Check it out at http://mysecurelogon.com/manager > > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >
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