On Sat, 2011-03-19 at 07:36 +0100, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 23:28 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > > Upgraded from Fedora 12 to Fedora 14 and getting this error message: > > I've had problems with Fedora version upgrades and no longer do them because IME they're more trouble than they are worth: in too many cases they've fallen over part way through and left enough of a mess than I've had to do a clean install to recover from it.
Now I just do the clean install. There are ways of making that easier and speeding it up: - put /home in a separate partition, i.e. use a custom partitioning scheme and keep a record of it in case your disk dies. - symlink /usr/local and /user/java to directories in /home - keep copies of hand-modified files from /etc someplace in /home - write a script that is run after the clean install to: - put the symlinks back - run yum to install packages that aren't part of the standard distro - rebuild the username and group lists Now installing a new version of Fedora involves: - start the clean install by reformatting all partitions except /home - after the install finishes, run "yum upgrade" and reboot - run the script - check, configure and restart your usual service collections With the above in place a clean install is relatively painless and fairly fast: the install and initial "yum upgrade" run is likely to be faster than the distro upgrade and will take longer than configuring and firing up your usual service collection. I know this is off topic for SA, but I thought it was worth describing since its an approach that should work for any Linux distro and for similar OSen such as BSD. Martin
