[ale] Fedora 9

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 11:26 -0400, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
> Scott Castaline wrote:
> > Geoffrey wrote:
> >   
> >> Jay Finch wrote:
> >>   
> >>     
> >>> Hey Mike,
> >>>    Can you think of any "gotchas" if I was wanting to update a FC6 mail 
> >>> server to F9?  I've been meaning to do something about it since FC6 was 
> >>> deprecated, but I haven't taken that plunge yet. :)
> >>>     
> >>>       
> >> Backup your configuration and do a clean install.  I would suggest that 
> >> you are likely to have many problems updating between to releases that 
> >> are that far apart.
> >>     
> > How about going from F 8 to F 9? In the past I've always done fresh 
> > installs. Also anyone that has moved to F 9, have you experienced any 
> > problems printing to network printers. There is a thread about that at 
> > Fedora Forums, but it looks like it maybe an issue of printing to a 
> > printer connected to a M$ PC, unless I'm missing some points there

>     I'm performing a F8 -> F9 upgrade at the moment. So far I haven't 
> ran into any problems following the Yum Upgrade FAQ wiki page. I don't 
> do much printing from my laptop so not sure I could provide any insight 
> on any printing problems.

>     I know when I tried to upgrade to F8 before it blew chunks so I'm 
> hoping I don't have that problem with the upgrade to F9.

	Probably the only thing that MIGHT bite you is the X problem, depending
on chipset.  Someone else recommended running X manually to clean up
xorg.conf.  I simply removed xorg.conf and restarted and it came up on
it's own.  That's what hit me on my T60p w/ ATI Rage chipset.

>     Jeremy

	Mike
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