[ale] upding software issue

[Pete Hardie]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 17:19, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> It _does_ work but it is not really recommended. I have a machine that
> has gone from Fedora core 1 through Fedora 9 by upgrade only. I will
> be wiping it and bare-installing F11 when it comes out. The upgrade
> take (much, MUCH) longer and can run into conflicts if there are many
> third-party repo's in use.
>
> Also because of the bleeding-edge nature of Fedora, there are many
> packages that get dropped from one version to the next. Those just
> cause update clogs later.
>
> That said, as long as you have fast access and the address for all the
> third-party repos, F9->F10 update was amazingly smooth on a test box.
> I still went back and wiped the drive later as I wanted to encrypt it
> and the process for doing so on a live machine was more arduous than
> the back up, wipe, install process.

How long does it take?  I may do this for my work box, since all the
stuff I really need is
backed up on the groups login machine.

And if you have pointers to a How-To ?


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