On 09/01/2011 09:05 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote: > I don't see an option in preupgrade to go from F13 i686 to F14 x86_64. > Is it possible? Yes, it is possible, but (for me at least) it entauked a whole bunch of grief. What I did was to use the F14 x86_64 install DVD, and do an upgrade. This is not an officially supported upgrade path (and I think it even tells you that and gives you the option to either abort or continue). I chose to continue, and it upgraded a whole bunch of RPMs, but, in the process, I ended up with a lot of duplicate RPMs of mixed architecture (F13.i686 & F14.x86_64) for some set of RPMs. I ended up going through my RPM list by hand and fixing up what I could using various techniques (yum update, rpm -i --force, rpm --erase --justdb, a couple of scripts which removed both versions and then re-installed the x86_64 version, whatever I could get to achieve what I wanted. It was very time consuming, and the yum error messages would take a long time to print out, and in a virtual console, I often could not see the entire output (the graphical UI was not initially working, and was one of the last things I was able to get working). > Or is it possible with an F14 x86_64 netinstall iso disk? Fedora should provide a better upgrade path for changing architectures (at least for i686->x86_64, I'm not sure it makes much sense between incompatible architectures), but, their official suggestion is to just "re-install" from scratch to avoid the grief that I went through. -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
