I am a believer in fresh installs of the OS, rather than upgrades :-
- You can retain the old install (disk) intact if you have problems you can go back to it.
- You get rid of any rubbish that may have been hanging about, that can have an impact on the reliability of the new install.
I isolated the FC14 disk by removing the cable - this is to ensure, I get the right disk for the install and I get a boot loader on the disk I am installing to, otherwise I have suddenly become dependent on both disks, and I have not retained my FC14.
I did a vanilla install of FC15 x86_64 - then plugged back in the FC14 disk.
Once rebooted after install logged in
yum update
vi /etc/grub.conf
removed rhgb and added timeout of 3 (so I get a menu if I have problems with a kernel and I can see what is happening during boot)
Changed the configuration from Network-Manager to network to get networking working at boot - edited /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 to achive the settings I desired.
yum install of
- system-config-displaymanager
- system-config-displaymanager-gnome
- gconf-editor
- qcad
- scribus
- system-config-lvm
yum install of
- vlc
- devede
- inkscape
- thunderbird
- thunderbird-lightning
- pitivi
- agave
- fuse-encfs
mount /dev/mapper/<vgfilesystem> /mnt/home
copied the /home contents to new install
copied additional user information from /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/group
edit /etc/selinux/config - change settings for selinux to preferred options
Set up printers - got brother drivers from brother website
Problems with brother driver crashing from qcad was traced to requiring a2ps - once this was installed it all worked.
Over time I will get the settings refined to what I desire - but now I have notes of the process I took I can refer to them when I do the FC16 upgrade. I suggest you try to keep notes of your build, even if it is just the packages you add as it saves a lot of time trying to figure out "What was that DVD burning software I was using?" e.t.c.
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