On Sat, 12 May 2012, David wrote:
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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.
Much thanks for the quick replies.
In order to expite the upgrade, is it possible to use rpms from the
F16 DVD rather than download them? That way there could be some possible
time savings.
Much thanks again,
Max Pyziur
pyz@xxxxxxxxx
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.
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David
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