[Cialug] Fedora upgrades

[Don Cady]

Link on fedora.redhat.com points to
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/

Don

> Anyone know where there are bittorents for Fedora?  I "might" be finally
> upgrading my RH 7.2 box, and would like to download the ISOs via bittorent 
> instead.
>
> --
> Tim W.
>
>
>> Josh More wrote:
>> > I went straight from RH9 to FC2.  I admit that I had my fingers crossed
>> > though.  *smile*
>>
>> In my experience, upgrading any RPM-based distribution can be a gamble.
>> I've done a number of RH and Mandr/ake/iva upgrades, usually they work
>> fine, sometimes there are small glitches, sometimes they die horribly.
>>
>> Always backup important stuff first. I've never had one totally corrupt
>> the disk or anything, but I've had to boot in rescue mode to recover
>> data after an upgrade bombed.
>>
>> If you're in a hurry, it may actually be faster to backup your data, do
>> a fresh install, and restore. Even on a 1ghz machine, the process where
>> it searches the RPM database and figures out what to upgrade may take a
>> couple of hours. That same machine can probably complete an install in
>> 15 minutes.
>>
>> -dc