[clug] upgrading to fedora

[Leigh Purdie]

Yeah, you should be ok to do this Adrian - I've done something very
similar a few times. I'd recommend throwing in a live CD as Robin
mentions, and save off your data somewhere safe first. Then, rm -rf
all directories that DONT have data you wish to keep (eg: rm -rf /bin
/boot /dev /etc /initrd /lib ... and so on), pruning the directories
down that have partial data.

Then you can install fedora over the top. Make sure you choose the
'preserve existing partition' option, and ensure that the 'format'
option is turned off for everything except swap and potentially /boot.

Regards,

Leigh.

On 11/20/06, Adrian Blake <adrian.blake at ieee.org> wrote:
> I have a machine running redhat 7.??   which has developed a problem, possible attack. I cannot locate the fault but it will not
> boot. My thought is to install Fedora 4 for which I have the CDs. Everything of value is in /home plus a postgres database. I hope
> to be able to do a pgdump ( or copy the database), but will everything in /home be undisturbed if I do and install over the top of
> the existing operating redhat 7.??
>
> Adrian
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