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Post Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 11:08 am   Post subject: Fedora 7 Released Reply with quote Back to top  
With a metric lorryload of new and improved stuff to play with... happy8

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f7/en_US/

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Post Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 11:45 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Will have to try... if it works as good as ubuntu with the wireless... I'll be sold

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Post Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 12:21 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
Whats the best procedure for updating a FC5 box to ver7?

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Post Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 12:50 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
There's some information in the release notes I posted:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f7/en_US/sn-Installer.html#Upgrades-versus-Installs

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In general, fresh installations are recommended over upgrades, particularly for systems that include software from third-party repositories.


Most all installations of Fedora use software from third party repositories I'll wager, so I would probably go for fresh install (I certainly will with my FC6 box).

If you're feeling brave however, backup everything it tells you to in the release notes and do a "yum upgrade." I've done it once on my very nearly stock CentOS box and it worked without issue, but I've never tried it on Fedora. The worst that can happen is you bork it and have to fresh install anyway.

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Post Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 1:15 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
I did the hard version of the on-line upgrade with downloading the latest yum/RHN file for the next version and then did a yum update. that was from fc4 to fc5... with fc6, I just used the ISO and ran the upgrade from anaconda. I may try a live upgrade after tarballing the whole system... then again, I may just wait for 8 to come out since updates are still rolling on 6.

the only issues I encountered were version upgrades on sendmail (had to re-configure sendmail.mc and then do a few line edits in sendmail.cf) Other than that... worked fine... but then it's a server and virtually bare of superfluous stuff (data files don't count Very Happy )

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Post Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 2:02 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
I'll probably do a clean install then. All I really use it for is to poke around on and as a file server. My storage disc is on a separate drive, so I should be able to do a clean install without affecting too much.

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