Questions for new SSD OS install

[fedora]

Hi Fred
after doing the basic install, couldn't you do the rest (LVM, raid) in 
single user mode?

suomi

On 2011-12-16 15:57, Frederick N. Brier wrote:
> I am about to upgrade the motherboard and add an SSD to my Fedora 16
> system, and the options and questions are numerous. The system should
> boot from the SSD and access the LVM partitions on the original drive
> (actually a 3Ware RAID). My system has gone through multiple Fedora
> upgrades in the last several years and with F16 I ended up trying
> Gnome3, then XFCE, and finally LXDE. I like LXDE, but some odd
> behaviours have cropped up like the printer service vanishing or
> features that check the Network Manager to see if there is a network
> connection available. So is this entropy or bugs? Should I do a clean
> install or try to migrate?
>
> My partition sizes are fine. My first steps are fairly clear - install
> the hardware, boot with an F16 DVD, and do a basic install keeping the
> partition sizes identical on the SSD.
>
> It is the next steps that I am unsure about. With the upgrade route, I
> could then boot with the DVD and dd the /root partition over to the SSD.
> I could merge the /etc/fstab on the SSD, make the old /root a
> /backup-root, but are there any gotchyas mounting the existing LVMs?
> When do the symbolic links in /dev/mapper get created and how do the
> /dev/dm-? files map to a physical drive (or RAID device)?
>
> Or should I do a clean install of F16 and specify LXDE from the get-go.
> Are there any automated tools for getting a list of all the packages
> (perhaps after running rpmreaper) installed on the existing system and
> then feeding that into the new OS to install the same packages? Any
> links would be helpful. I do not need a lot of hand holding. Please just
> point me in the right direction :). Thank you for any help.