[ATrpms-users] FC4 - FC5 - FC6 Upgrade questions

[Al McIntosh]

Axel Thimm wrote:
>> I have both the FC5 and FC6 DVDs and have considered performing a fresh 
>> install and symply importing my backed up mythconverge.sql. However, 
>> it's not that easy, I would have reconfigure everything, lvm, ivtv, well 
>> as I said everything.
>>     
>
> A fresh install is always best. You should backup the mysql database
> and all of /etc (and of course homes). Then you can reinstall w/o
> changing lvm at all - just let the installer format the partitions and
> let him know which partition was for /home, /boot etc.
>
> Second best is to do a DVD upgrade.
>   


I finally got around to upgrading my main myth box from FC4 to FC6 the 
entire process really wasn't that bad.
I ended up performing a fresh install from DVD.  A few minor hiccups, I 
forgot to back up my crontabs and /usr/local/bin/MyBlaster.pl.  Opps $)

I had to update my ~/.xinitrc and change references to 
/usr/X11R6/bin/xset to /usr/bin/xset. Looking back, really, the longest 
steps were waiting for `yum -y upgrade` and `yum -y install 
mythtv-suite` once the DVD install was complete.

Thanks for the input,
Al