Fedora Core 6 - upgrade or re-install

Re-install would be better option. The latest fedora is fedora 11 and lot of things would have changed from Fedora 6 to Fedora 11 including

  1. Location of some config files
  2. Format of config files
  3. Default set of tools which get installed with Fedora

You should definitely install it from scratch.

Even if you perform a step-by-step update, you most likely get problems with even between the "small" update steps.

Because of that I would even think about a reinstall if it were just an upgrade from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11, but going from 6 to 11, it's a definite yes. You'll save time.


I disagree with DR in that it's very easy to perform an upgrade from one Fedora version to the next with recent versions - see this link.

Going from 6 to 11 is a different matter, though; I agree with the other posts that the changes are significant enough that you'd be much better off doing a reinstall.