On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 09:49:21 -0800, > Robert Arkiletian <robark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Going from F12 to F14 >> 200MB /boot partition (software raid1) >> I know Preupgrade won't work as /boot is too small. >> Can I use an F14 netinstall cd with Anaconda to upgrade or does that >> also require a larger /boot partition? > > You should be able to use yum to do the upgrade. You'll probably need to > handle a few quirks by hand. I have kitchen sync installs including some > stuff from rpmfusion and I usually need to handle a few packages blocking > upgrades of other packages. If you have a default install and are not > using third party repos or one off packages, the upgrade may just work. > There were a few release transitions that had special problems (e.g. there > was one where the rpm format changed), but f12-f14 was long enough ago, > that I don't remember if either of those was special. If so you may need > to go from f12 to f13 and then to f14. > > As a side note, F14 is losing support in less than a month. It may make > more sense to backup /home and /etc and do a fresh install of f16, restore > /home and look to see if any of your change in /etc need to be ported. > Doing that would possibly be faster than a series of upgrades. > Here is a question. Currently got /boot as a separate raided partition. What if I boot into linux rescue mode with install cd and copy /boot dir to the / partition. Essentially removing the separate /boot partition. Then edit /etc/fstab (remove /boot partition mount) /boot/grub/grub.conf to point to the right partition. Then re-install grub to the mbr. Do I also need to rebuild my initrd image too? It should reboot fine correct? I don't really care about losing use of that 200MB array. It's so small. Shouldn't I be able to use preupgrade then without issue? -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada -- 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
