question about upgrading to Fedora

Fred Nastos nastos-JAjqph6Yjy8fbXvGcxQkLSwD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue May 4 20:11:33 UTC 2004


On May 4, 2004 03:51 pm, Mel Seder wrote:
> I'm not an expert at all,  but if I recall correctly Fedora will ask you if
> you want to use existing linux partitions or to delete and use all partions
> on the drive(s).  Can anyone verify that this is correct?

Yes, this will happen.  Actually, just yesterday we upgraded a comp
from redhat7.3 (dual boot with win2000) to fedora core 1.  No problems.
Kept the windows partition.  Grub had a slight misconfiguration so it
required so we just reran the grub installer again and everything
worked fine.

> --- Jim Ruxton <cinetron-uEvt2TsIf2EsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm currently dual booting XP with RH7.2 . I want to upgrade to Fedora
> > but don't want to lose my XP partition. I'm booting using Boot Magic
> > then loading Linux with Grub. If I boot off the first Fedora CD  will it
> > know I have an XP partition and leave it alone? I am  going to back up
> > my Linux home directory and do a complete install. I think it would be
> > difficult to just upgrade from 7.2 to Fedora. I assume Fedora will write
> > over my previous files. So I guess my only question now is how Fedora
> > will deal with the XP partition.
> > Thanks
> >
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