Best means of upgrade

[Emerson French]

A straight upgrade from 6 to 13 is unlikely to work or otherwise go
smoothly. You might try upgrading incrementally--that'll take more time, but
it could save you the grief. A clean install is probably your best bet. As
long as you run the install properly, you shouldn't run into boot config
trouble--if you do, it's probably not the end of the world, though what
little I've done with grub has been a pain at times.

Emerson French

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> wrote:

> I have a server running a 32 bit release and some critical VMs, so I really
> don't want to mess it up. It also has an old 64 bit (FC6) release which I
> get to
> via chain loader from the grub in 32 bit. I want to upgrade the 64 bit
> (which I
> don't use) to the FC13 pre stuff from a daily spin.
>
> The config is thus, 32 bit boot is in a raid-1 array, as is the 64 bit
> boot.
> Those are based on primary partitions. Then there is a raid-6 array with
> LVM on
> it, providing /home, and Root32 and Root64 LVs. I want to put the latest 64
> bit
> on the array for /boor64 and the LV for /Root64. I do *NOT* want to hose
> the 32
> bit or MBR!
>
> My choices are:
> 1 - try to do an upgrade from FC6 to FC13 over the 64 bit install
> 2 - do a fresh fc13 install, also over the 64 bit old stuff
> 3 - do it on another machine, too likely to hose the production stuff
>     (do it on the fc10 bits of a laptop which is not critical)
>
> Any relevant thoughts on doing the install so I can be sure I can continue
> to
> use the chain loader from the 32 bit production stuff?
>
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