Upgrade guidance

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 12:40 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> writes:
> 
> > Due to an installer regression in Fedora 9 that has yet to be fixed for
> > F10 (installer pukes on Samsung hard drives that have a '/' in their
> > model name), I had to install F8 on a box last week, and opted to go
> > straight to rawhide from there. It worked fine after sorting out some
> > things manually to get the sysvinit to upstart bits right, but was
> > certainly not entirely straight-forward, and this was a minimal install
> > to begin with. So yeah, FC6 straight to F9... Not recommended, unless
> > you *really* know what you're doing. Incremental upgrades from 6 to 7 to
> > 8 to 9 might be less pain and suffering.
> 
> Hmm..  I wonder if this is the same issue I had with F9 on a
> system with four seagate barracuda drives where it wouldn't
> read the disks so crashed in the early installer with a python
> backtrace?

Yep, nice long backtrace when probing the disks -- extra-fun with
rawhide, because if you try to save the backtrace to bugzilla or even to
a usb stick or another machine via ssh, *that* backtraces too... :)


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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com