[Cialug] Fedora upgrades

[timwilson011 at mchsi.com]

Anyone know where there are bittorents for Fedora?  I "might" be finally
upgrading my RH 7.2 box, and would like to download the ISOs via bittorent instead.

--
Tim W.


> Josh More wrote:
> > I went straight from RH9 to FC2.  I admit that I had my fingers crossed
> > though.  *smile* 
> 
> In my experience, upgrading any RPM-based distribution can be a gamble. 
> I've done a number of RH and Mandr/ake/iva upgrades, usually they work 
> fine, sometimes there are small glitches, sometimes they die horribly.
> 
> Always backup important stuff first. I've never had one totally corrupt 
> the disk or anything, but I've had to boot in rescue mode to recover 
> data after an upgrade bombed.
> 
> If you're in a hurry, it may actually be faster to backup your data, do 
> a fresh install, and restore. Even on a 1ghz machine, the process where 
> it searches the RPM database and figures out what to upgrade may take a 
> couple of hours. That same machine can probably complete an install in 
> 15 minutes.
> 
> -dc
> 
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