[ale] Fedora 9

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 11:26 -0400, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote:
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>> Scott Castaline wrote:
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>>> Geoffrey wrote:
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>>>> Jay Finch wrote:
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>>>>> 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. :)
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>>>> 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.
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>>> 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
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>>     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.
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>>     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.
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> 	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.
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>   
> 	Mike
>   

    I may have to remember that when I get my workstation powered back 
up (been offline for almost a year now) but then again I will most 
likely just do a fresh install on it when I do. My laptop has an Intel 
945GM and I've never had any problems with it regardless of distro.

    Jeremy