> On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 11:07 -0500, Anthony Messina wrote: >> I have scoured the posts and found many users who have successfully run >> an "upgrade" installation of FC5, upgrading from FC4. Has anyone had >> any experience in doing this when the FC4 server is running cyrus-imapd, >> mailman and postfix? Cyrus-imapd is my main concern with the upgrade as >> the databases can be troublesome. Any information about >> successes/failures would be greatly appreciated. >> > let me guess, This is a _production machine_ and you are planning an > upgrade. Have you paid the life insurance? In other words, have you > done a backup so that if something goes wrong you can recover? > > I have never done an 'upgrade' install. However, there are many who > have, and many messages just after FC5 came out about 4 months ago > concerning both successes and failures. You may want to check the > archives from the March - April time frame to see what others had to say > about it. yes, it is a production machine of sorts, and i have always went with the "install from scratch and copy everything back" type of install. but i wanted to see if anyone had any luck with this method. of course i'll back up the data, etc. first. i was just trying to get some info an any specific problems to anticipate. -- Anthony http://messinet.com/~amessina/ http://messinet.com/~amessina/gallery 8F89 5E72 8DF0 BCF0 10BE 9967 92DC 35DC B001 4A4E
