<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>How often do you want to do an extensive upgrade of the system? If every 6 months is OK, go straight to F19 and blow away the entire drive and start over. The installer is usable for a single drive or a raid 1 mirror setup but not much else.<br>
<br></div>If you're OK with last years code forever (um Fedora 13? really? owch!) then install Centos 6.4<br><br></div>don't waste time on the F17 then upgrade cycle. Yes the F18 and 19 installers blow chunks from all orifices but they will work with some patience.<br>
<br></div>Or better yet, do an install with F20 and see what it does (then write about it here!)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Sean Kilpatrick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kilpatms@gmail.com" target="_blank">kilpatms@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Although interesting, the recent threads on Fedora/RedHat/Centos/Ubuntu/Debian installs failed to answer my current question:</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">My current system:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">AMD 64x2 1ghz chip w/4 gig memory</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">2 hard drives in Raid 1:</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Partition size used</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> /boot .1 gig 63%</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> / 10 gig 27%</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"> /home 198 gig 21%</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Current OS: FC 13 - 64 bit</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">I can not upgrade directly (although I am constantly being proded to do so by the OS) because the web-based installer gags on the Raid.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">I have in hand both Centos 6.3 X86-64 and the same in FC 17.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Given what I have read here on Ale and elsewhere, I am extremely hesitant to tackle the FC18 install routine.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Should I install the Centos 6.3 and configure it as a desktop?</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Or should I install FC 17 and try to upgrade via the web-based installer? That question also asks if the newer web-based install routine can deal with a Raid-1. I don't know one way or the other.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Or should I now skip to FC 19, which seems to have a more useable install routine?</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Or should I wait until FC 20 is stable and try that?</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Or give up on Red Hat altogether and install a 64 bit version of Mint, which I also have available?</p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Sean</p>
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