Test upgrade from F13 to F14 using LVM snapshot?

[Richard Shaw]

I was thinking of trying a DVD based upgrade (or pre-upgrade) from F13
to F14 Alpha (or later Beta, etc) using LVM snapshots so if things go
poorly I theoretically would just have to drop the snapshots and
things would go back to F13. The exception would be the /boot
partition, but it should be possible to keep my old kernels, yes?

Has anyone tried this?

Thanks,
Richard

[Michael Semcheski]

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Richard Shaw  wrote:
> The exception would be the /boot
> partition, but it should be possible to keep my old kernels, yes?

I haven't tried this, but if everything else works, you ought to be
able to make an image of /boot using dd.  (/boot being a relatively
small partition.)

[Richard Shaw]

On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Michael Semcheski  wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Richard Shaw  wrote:
> > The exception would be the /boot
> > partition, but it should be possible to keep my old kernels, yes?
>
> I haven't tried this, but if everything else works, you ought to be
> able to make an image of /boot using dd.  (/boot being a relatively
> small partition.)

Yeah. I keep a 1GB /boot because of pre-upgrade and I also keep
Memtest86, MHDD, and SystemRescue CD images in /boot with grub
entries. I may try using dump/restore instead of 'dd' just to get some
experience with it.

Richard