upgrade to shrike from 7.3, results

[Wade Chandler]

mark wrote:
> After having complete and total failure on the "upgrade" - if anyone's 
> paying any attention from RedHat, this is *not* acceptable in a business 
> environment, or for desktop users - every single time the python scripts 
> with anaconda *failed* with unhandled exceptions, I went on to Plan B.
> 
> Attempt 1:
>    a) Copy /boot, /, and /home to a new spare drive (the same one
>     that the .iso's are on.
>    b) Select reinstall system. Skip formatting the filesystems.
>    c) Screw around with customizing for a user that, like most,
>     *don't* need the kitchen sink. Have it fail a number of
>     times with insufficient space, since it can't seem to
>     figure out that it's going to overwrite many files. Delete
>     lots o' stuff.
>    d) Finally get it to install. Shell looks fine. KDE will *not* start,
>     and croaks every time. Even though I told it reinstall, it
>     apparently didn't reinit the rpm d/b, and did *not* install
>     some things, since they conflicted with other, older packages.
> 
> Attempt 2:
>    a) copy a bit more over to the new drive.
>    b) Select reinstall system. Let it format /var (and so wipe
>     out the rpm d/b, and /.
>    c) Customize packages.
>    d) Continue.
> 
> Success. Then it was just copy /home back, and create users to use those 
> directories, and chown -R on them.
> 
> All in all, she's upgraded...but this is a *lousy* way to expect 
> barely-computer-literate desktop-oriented users to expect to do an 
> upgrade...since it *ain't*, it's an install.
> 
> *sigh*
> 
>     mark "and her network printing is finally working...."

Wasn't Shrike RH9?

Wade