[ATrpms-users] Re: FC3 to FC4 upgrade

[Tako Schotanus]

Jarod Wilson wrote:

>On Tuesday 14 June 2005 09:34, Axel Thimm wrote:
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>>On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 12:19:35PM -0400, Preet Khalsa wrote:
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>>>I need advice.
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>>>In other upgrades, I backed up and did a clean install from CD.  This
>>>time around there is no major kernel upgrade or other system level
>>>things to worry about.
>>>
>>>Does the upgrader on CD work or is it broken like in the past?
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>>>Do I just switch repos and let yum do the work?  I have to use yum
>>>because this is a x86_64 box.
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>>Yes, upgrading with yum/smart is rather safe this time. yum may bail
>>out due to too many packages in its memory, but that will not harm
>>your system (it will just not update it).
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>>FWIW I would always upgrade kernel, reboot, upgrade glibc and then do
>>the full thing.
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>>BTW the FC4 systems I have are all from scratch, so the above is just
>>academic. ;)
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>My workstation at work started its current life as a Fedora Core 3 box, and 
>while there were a few bumps along the way, its now upgraded to a full Fedora 
>Core 4 box, so it can certainly be done. I used apt for everything though, 
>never touched yum or CDs.
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But what I wondered is if this will install any nice new features that 
FC4 might have over FC3?
I remember for example that upgrading from FC2 to FC3 (or was it FC1 to 
FC2? Can't remember) would not give you the graphical boot sequence that 
you would get with a fresh install.

I would especially like to test the new Xen support and that seems like 
a pretty "mayor" change.

Any thoughts on that?

Was Xen support automatically installed for you Axel? And you Jarod?

Cheers,
 -Tako