FC4->FC5 upgrade installs

[Paul Howarth]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 18:38 -0500, Jack Howarth wrote:
>>     Has anyone attempted an upgrade install of FC5 over an existing
>> FC4 installation yet? In particular I would be interested to hear
>> from folks with RAID-1 system drives. When I did an upgrade install
>> of FC4 over FC2, the upgrade worked well except all the RAID-1
>> partitions became degraded and I had to reattach the missing slices.
>> Thanks in advance for any info.
> 
> I'll be upgrading my home desktop in the next few days, which has 6
> RAID-1 arrays:
> 
> /dev/md3               1011864    233024    727440  25% /
> /dev/md4                101018     11686     84116  13% /boot
> /dev/md2              20161084  14514604   4622344  76% /home
> /dev/md0               5044064   3998084    789752  84% /usr
> /dev/md1               1011864    400680    559784  42% /var
> /dev/md5               1011864     26824    933640   3% /usr/local
> 
> We'll see how it goes.

All RAID arrays activated properly after upgrade:

/dev/md3               1011864    239980    720484  25% /
/dev/md4                101018      7818     87984   9% /boot
/dev/md2              20161084  14492484   4644464  76% /home
/dev/md0               5044064   4024356    763480  85% /usr
/dev/md1               1011864    401120    559344  42% /var
/dev/md5               1011864     26836    933628   3% /usr/local

Due to having less that 1GB of free space in /usr, I had to remove 
openoffice, do the upgrade and then reinstall openoffice. Other than 
that, no real problems.

Be sure to set aside a good chunk of time for the upgrade though - the 
process seems to take around twice as long as previous upgrades on the 
same hardware.

Paul.