Re: Upgrade FC11->14

2011-02-06 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/06/2011 01:52 AM, Tim wrote: > It's still a very long time. Which may all be wasted if it turns out > not to be viable. Have you ever actually had that happen, or are you just looking for a worst-case scenario to complain about? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsub

Re: Upgrade FC11->14

2011-02-06 Thread Tim
Tim: >> An upgrade takes ages. It's got to assess what you've got, work out the >> dependencies, etc. Joe Zeff: > That's what's nice about using preupgrade. Start it going and then get > on with whatever you were doing. Then, once it's done, you can reboot > into the upgrade at the end of the

Re: Upgrade FC11->14

2011-02-05 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/05/2011 07:02 PM, Tim wrote: > An upgrade takes ages. It's got to assess what you've got, work out the > dependencies, etc. That's what's nice about using preupgrade. Start it going and then get on with whatever you were doing. Then, once it's done, you can reboot into the upgrade at th

Re: Upgrade FC11->14

2011-02-05 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 09:54 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I have a laptop running fc11, with the non-boot partition encrypted > LUKS. Based on one bad experience with another system, and one fail > with a VM, just booting the DVD and asking it to upgrade is not the > way to a working system. While

Re: Upgrade FC11->14

2011-02-05 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 02/05/2011 09:54 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I have a laptop running fc11, with the non-boot partition encrypted LUKS. > Based > on one bad experience with another system, and one fail with a VM, just > booting > the DVD and asking it to upgrade is not the way to a working system. While I >

Re: Upgrade FC11->14

2011-02-05 Thread mike cloaked
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > I have a laptop running fc11, with the non-boot partition encrypted LUKS. > Based > on one bad experience with another system, and one fail with a VM, just > booting > the DVD and asking it to upgrade is not the way to a working system. Whil

Upgrade FC11->14

2011-02-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
I have a laptop running fc11, with the non-boot partition encrypted LUKS. Based on one bad experience with another system, and one fail with a VM, just booting the DVD and asking it to upgrade is not the way to a working system. While I can certainly backup /home and reinstall, there are a fair