Re: Fedora upgrade to a new partition

2010-12-12 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Timothy Murphy | I've always had a single /boot partition and it seems to work fine, | with the same grub.conf for different systems. Always is a long time. I've been upgrading my Linux boxes since at least RHL 5.x. A small chance of grief times a lot of instances can still yield greif

Re: Fedora upgrade to a new partition

2010-12-12 Thread Timothy Murphy
D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > | Nb I keep separate /home and /boot partitions, > | which I don't format when upgrading. > | (I choose the Custom Upgrade choice, > | not the disastrously bad default which re-partitions your machine.) > > I do something quite similar. > > I don't have a separate /bo

Re: Fedora upgrade to a new partition

2010-12-11 Thread Joachim Backes
On 12/12/2010 08:13 AM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > On Sat, 11 Dec 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > | Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:47:50 + > | From: Timothy Murphy > | To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org > | Followup-To: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general > | Subject: Re: Fe

Re: Fedora upgrade to a new partition

2010-12-11 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: | Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 17:47:50 + | From: Timothy Murphy | To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org | Followup-To: gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general | Subject: Re: Fedora upgrade to a new partition | | Joachim Backes wrote: | | > having the follow

Re: Fedora upgrade to a new partition

2010-12-11 Thread Timothy Murphy
Joachim Backes wrote: > having the following question: sometimes it happens that after an > upgrade of a Fedora-x to a Fedora-y, the Fedora-y does not run correctly > (there may be a lot of reasons for this...). So going back to a running > system, but how to achieve this? > > So my question (or

Re: Fedora upgrade to a new partition

2010-12-11 Thread Joachim Backes
On 12/11/2010 08:58 AM, Kam Leo wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Joachim Backes > mailto:joachim.bac...@rhrk.uni-kl.de>> > wrote: > > Hi, > > having the following question: sometimes it happens that after an > upgrade of a Fedora-x to a Fedora-y, the Fedora-y does not

Re: Fedora upgrade to a new partition

2010-12-10 Thread Kam Leo
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:33 PM, Joachim Backes < joachim.bac...@rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote: > Hi, > > having the following question: sometimes it happens that after an > upgrade of a Fedora-x to a Fedora-y, the Fedora-y does not run correctly > (there may be a lot of reasons for this...). So going ba