[CVALE] Installfest FC4 -> FC5 upgrade questions

[Jason Roysdon]

FYI for those not at the Installfest:
I was upgrading my laptop from FC4 to FC5 (using the normal upgrade 
method, not the Yum method Kristian is referring to).  About 90% of the 
way through, I turned back to my laptop and it was off.  I checked the 
power, and it was still plugged in... silly thing has the 6 intake vents 
on the bottom and it was halfway between two slightly uneven tables.

It did end up booting up to the FC5 kernel when we powered it back up at 
Fire2Wire, but most of the old FC4 RPMs were still installed, along with 
much of the new FC5 RPMs.  X wouldn't load, but Yum was working.

When I got home, I messed with Yum update for a bit.  I removed all the 
FC4 RPMs (since they caused RPM conflicts), used yum groupremove X-stuff 
and yum groupinstall X-stuff (X, Gnome, KDE, whatever).  Still no dice 
with X and who knows how hosed things really were.

I went to bed and then today figured I might as well just scrap the 
install and go back to my backup.  I ran a fresh FC5 install (format and 
use linux partitions option) and untarred my user directory from backup 
and everything is happy again (so far, I haven't tested much yet).

I think things would have went pretty smooth, but I think I might still 
have had problems with old kernels causing some conflicts (I'm too lazy 
to remove old ones).

However, I had upgraded an FC3 and two FC4 systems to FC5 before this 
with no problems.