On 11/08/10 17:19, stupidmail4me wrote: > I have a machine currently running 4.6 and want to upgrade to 4.8. I know you > shouldn't skip releases for upgrades, so I'm planning on wiping and > installing.
heh. you COULD just put 4.7 in the middle, you know. > Problem is I have some important data on a softraid partition. The root disk > is > just an IDE drive (wd0), and the softraid partition is a RAID 1 setup of two > separate disks (wd1 and wd2). Can I safely wipe everything on the root disk, > install 4.8, and just mount the softraid partition? See the upgrade guides, they give you the story on softraid for 4.6->4.7 and 4.7->4.8. However, you have the perfect config for testing...grab an old, small disk, load 4.8 on it, see if it sees your RAID set (it will). Nick.
