Upgrade guidance

[Jarod Wilson]

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 14:29 -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> 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... :)

I should add that the backtrace save pukes because of the slash, not
because that functionality is completely broken -- it works great in
most other cases.


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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com