just this week, i moved from f17 -> f21.

i found most config stuff under /etc for host and all /home/jackc for the rest.
i slammed these to an offline drive, copying homdir back after the os was ready.

naturally, YMMV...

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Ranjan Maitra <maitra.mbox.ignored@inbox.com> wrote:
On Fri, 30 Oct 2015 10:20:44 -0400 "Jeffrey Ross" <jeff@bubble.org> wrote:

> I'm looking for some suggestions on how to upgrade an older Fedora system
> and keep as many of the configurations as possible for the applications
> that are being used.

The recommendation is to go through successive upgrades one after the other. However, I am very doubtful that one of these will not break. I seem to recall that F18 or F19 was the one which broke upgrades (I think it was F19).

> Currently the system is running Fedora 16 and there are at least two
> things that are preventing me from successfully running fedup or the yum
> upgrade.
>
> The first stumbling block is that system was installed with separate
> partitions for /, /boot, /var, & /usr and I think that the separation of /
> and /usr is my biggest issue.

I don't see why this should be an issue in a clean install. Are you wanting to keep /usr because you installed programs here? You may consider moving files that you created to a separate directory inside your home partition and then pushing it back. One possibility is to partition the current /usr and then move the programs to that new partition and keep that one in a new install.

> The second issue is the system is setup with RAID1 on all partitions with
> the bootloader (Grub ?) installed on both disks in the event of a disk
> failure.

I am not sure how RAID0 figures into this equation: I have not much knowledge of this, sorry.

> I would like to avoid a new/clean install (I know I can preserve /home) if
> at all possible.

You can pretty much preserve whichever partition you want as long as it makes sense. For instance, you could keep a separate /usr/local partition where you could put your local installed programs. But this is after the fact so will not be helpful.

> Any suggestions on how to proceed?

It is for situations such as these that I wish that there was also a rolling-release version of Fedora.

Many thanks and best wishes,
Ranjan

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