upgrading to F16 or F17 with /var and/or /usr on LVM volumes?

[Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I]

What about a SystemRescue CD?....I've been told they have tools that can 
help out in situations where you can't seen to get into your PC?....and 
is that all I would have to backup if I wanted to go from Fedora 15 to 
Fedora 17?using a fresh install...."home" and "etc"..is that where all 
my skins for Firefox....Thunberbird.....Audacity etc are located? What 
about my music, pictures, and documents? would all those be safe? I want 
to upgrade / update so bad, but I also don't want to lose all the stuff 
I have on here either!...


EGO II

On 06/20/2012 10:13 AM, Joel Rees wrote:
> Tried preupgrade, but it can't find my old system, and kicks the
> upgrade process to the curb.
>
> Then I tried the netinstall CD and it can't find my old system, either.
>
> Looking around, I see a bit of discussion of problems with the install
> process recognizing  LVM partitions. Rescue mode boot of the
> netinstall CD appears to be unable to mount LVM partitions.
>
> Does anyone know of a work-around short of backing up /etc and /home
> and doing a fresh install?
>
>
> --
> Joel Rees