-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 5/12/2012 5:25 PM, Phil Dobbin wrote: > On 12/05/12 21:44, Max Pyziur wrote: > >> Hoping to at least be on the trailing edge, I've started an >> upgrade process on my Dell Laptop Inspiron 600m. > >> It is currently running F15, and I'd like to upgrade to F16. > >> However, after going through the usual preliminaries (select >> time, keyboard, language), then Basic Storage devices, hostname, >> root password, I'm given a choice to: Use All Space Replace >> Existing Linux Shrink Current System Use Free Space Create >> Custom Layout > >> Each one of these indicates that "this option will remove date >> from the selected devices. Make sure you have backups" > >> What happened to "Upgrade an existing system" as seen on this >> Fedora 16 documentation page: >> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Installation_Guide/sn-upgrading-system-x86.html > >> >> > > >> Plus all of the other choices: "Use LVM" (I assume that I don't >> need this for a basic laptop) "Encrypt system" (suggestions?) >> "Review and modify partitioning layout" (definitely, before >> everything gets possibly wiped) > >> And I have done a full data backup. > > > I personally upgraded from 15 -> 16 using preupgrade & it worked > flawlessly apart from it hung for about twenty minutes at the > selinux-policy stage but it eventually carried on & in the end I > had a F16 system with everything working fine. It has been my observation in that past that the users that problems upgrading and 3rd party repos and packages. Those are 'not there' for the update and the Fedora updates gets 'stuck' trying to figure out what to do with what. I may be wrong but that is what it looks like to me. - -- David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPrtbvAAoJEObJ14kUYB6p/1QIAKY3S9MyRZmcX7Yn1Ui9ARAt oEbhUTguQVyiX2f9NJi6rbFeafS5sfcOxyDu3e+Rxh9qv1AqFCjml2REVEHb5oSB XJs1lofw65BfIOs9qjpozn2JN5+7Ohc0UkYJ7Pp/UvwG1gdYFZVPwUEcxHSyuOfx U2bIQEBiYeQOtSAGyNrjwRbw1MV7KrpH3OWMH4a/x7A5yFnxnbCRDxffxFdlTgBC unL2aiayZ656NEshsl7D0WvnngkfhomYDSDwDhtgrvlHXXb7Sjb7tLTvGtHNyQP3 NSkBdZkByKB0zZjtxaflAeVqy6ssUwjJfvew9Zgjto3L4zVFOP7lko9I9RpUXWQ= =x7jz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
