[Novalug] which live CD (or DVD) to the rescue?

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Fri Jun 7 08:04:26 EDT 2013


1) I hope your /home is a separate partition. If so, install F18 from
CD/DVD/Network image. DO NOT FORMAT /home, but format the other
partitions. You will need to do 'customer formatting and use the same
partition scheme'.

My experience is fedup is a HUGE improvement and if you have power and
a reasonable internet connection, you are in good share.

I haven't upgraded to Beta 19 yet, well I upgraded my son and will
test it on him before my systems ;)



On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Beartooth <beartooth@beartooth.info> wrote:
>
>         I've been fiddling with upgrades in Fedora, mostly from
> 17 to 18, and have scrod my #1 and #2 PCs up more royally than
> usual.
>
>         It's gotten so bad that neither will do a proper boot;
> and neither will allow me to ssh into it from another machine on
> my LAN.
>
>         It didn't help any that at least one of the two got shut
> down in the midst of an upgrade.  (I had had uncommonly good
> results upgrading my #3 and #4, and was hubristic fool enough to
> start the upgrade on #1 before I had finished #2 and run it a
> while, thinking fedup would take care of me.)
>
>         I do know that the long list of apps on each shows some
> (most, I think) with an fc18 term, but also some with fc17.
>
>         I'm resigned to using the big hammer: wiping each in
> turn, either with DBAN, or by installing something else (such as
> CentOS) over the top of them, then installing F18 over that.
>
>         Also, I've been running mostly Gnome (and some xfce4); so
> I'm hesitant about Knoppix or Ubuntu.
>
>         The problem exists because my routine form of backup has
> been to keep #1 and #2 in good enough sync that whenever I borked
> one, I simply did a fresh install on top of the mess, and then
> copied my data back into it from the other.
>
>         I have an external USB hard drive. What I want to do is
> run one of the scrodden PCs from a live medium, and use that to
> copy my favorite files onto the external drive.
>
>         I do have two older slower PCs running (F 18 on one and
> CentOS 6.4 on the other); so if one live medium is better for
> this than another, I can download a copy and burn it.
>
> --
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