On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Robert Arkiletian <robark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? Oh Oh. I forgot. My / is ext4. F12 can't boot off ext4 filesystem. But I know F14 *can*. Hmm. So if I go ahead with this plan to get rid of my /boot partition, I won't be able to boot back into F12 to run preupgrade. AAHH! This is frustrating. What will happen if I just copy /boot to /boot2 in / partition. Then change /etc/fstab and rename /boot to /boot1 (original boot dir) rename /boot2 to /boot (new boot dir) fix the new grub.conf to point to the second raid array (not the first) So my original /boot array is still there but renamed to boot1. Then I run preupgrade. Will that work? -- 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
