Ric Moore wrote: > On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 10:51 -0500, Gene Poole wrote: >> Has anyone had experience with a FC4 --> FC6 upgrade? >> I've got Oracle 10g, special Apache, Tomcat 5.0.28, Java SDK 1.4.2 and >> 1.5.0 installed and running just great. I'm not sure what exactly needs to >> be backed up. I've got all of the key areas on separate filesystems (i.e. >> /usr/oracle; /usr/apache; /usr/tomcat; /usr/java), so I don't have to back >> them up. But what about /home and /etc? Are there other areas? Any >> information and/or help will be much appreciated. > > Gene, I did FC4 to FC5 upgrade and it blew up. > Finding the answers to the problems after several weeks... > ... priceless. Ric > > Gene, I've done 2 FC4 to FC5 upgrades recently. One blew up. One took about 9 hours, but completed fine. I have found that one must be careful when upgrading from FC4 to anything else, primarily because of the package shuffling between what was included with FC4 and what was moved to extras for FC5. -- Ceterum censeo, Carthago delenda est. Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415
