Upgrading Fedora

The recommended installation method is detailed in the Installation Guide:

The release notes also have some useful information (the following link is for the Fedora 8 release notes):

Tips

It's a good idea to have a backup of your system before performing an upgrade.
- If you have /home in a separate logical volume or partition, it makes backing up user data easier. This is a feature requested for the Fedora Installer. See Bug 150670 for more on this.
Doing a clean installation and then restoring user data from backups is known to work better.
- The installer is to be improved to do something like this by default in the future releases. See AnacondaWorkItems for more information.
You can do an upgrade using the regular installation DVDs. The Live media only does fresh installs, not upgrades. The installation overrides any third party packages which conflict with the default installation set. Applications within the Fedora repository are easily upgradeable. See the Installation Guide for more information.
Make sure you read the Release Notes carefully before attempting an upgrade.
You can also do an upgrade using the yum package manager, but this is not officially supported by the Fedora Project. See the Yum Upgrade FAQ page for details.