I fear I may have given a bad impression of my upgrade experiences! Actually the problems were mainly caused by the fact that I was upgrading by installing on top of an existing installation (something not recommended by the Fedora Project) but that was so that I preserved all the original settings for the web server, and the various other tools I had installed on the system, and in fact the strategy worked. The webserver and all the other bits and pieces worked immediately after the upgrade, the problems were caused by the graphical tools that I use for general computing! (again poor practice really – a server should be dedicated to just that, but the set up works!<\/p>\n
I have added links to the last post for anyone who is interested, and the system is now working well both as the server, and as my general computer. However Amazon have just delivered “Fedora Linux”<\/a> by Chris Tyler<\/a> (published by O’Reilly) which I would recommend to anyone thinking about installing a Linux system. (Other books include“Fedora 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux Bible”<\/a> or “Red Hat Fedora Core 6 Unleashed”<\/a>) Any one is well worth the investment! (Perhaps I should have read it before embarking on the upgrqade, although I’m not sure I would have changed the overall strategy.)<\/p>\n Having browsed the book, there are somethings that I might have done differently and some more things I should do eventually. Certainly a clean install on a fresh disk drive would have been less messy, but it would have taken longer to get the blog and everything else up and running. Still, I learned a lot in the process!<\/p>\n It is still wet and windy here in Hampshire, I am at work at the moment (it is a quiet afternoon) but I shall be leaving to brave the traffic shortly! Another stage in getting my life back!<\/p>\n So… Onwards and upwards!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I fear I may have given a bad impression of my upgrade experiences! Actually the problems were mainly caused by the fact that I was upgrading by installing on top of an existing installation (something not recommended by the Fedora Project) but that was so that I preserved all the original settings for the web […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-getting-my-life-back","category-tech-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boraston.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}