OK, I realize that I'm behind on my personal systems.  That being said, I want to migrate from Fedora 13 to Fedora 16 and at the end of it all, drop VMware Server 2.0.2 in favor of the latest KVM and move from Oracle 11gR2 database to PostgreSQL database.. To complicate things more, I'm running Raid-1 on 2 - Hitachi Deskstar 1.5 TB drives with multiple partitions (including /boot).

I've read that you can only migrate a single version when using Anaconda (i.e. Fedora 13 --> Fedora 14 --> Fedora 15 --> Fedora 16), so I can see the a full migration may take about a week.  At each stop, what should I verify to determine if the upgrade went OK? Should I stop my Oracle, JBoss and other applications prior to the upgrade?

Is there some pieces of wisdom any of you can give me on this task?

Thanks,
Gene Poole

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