Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
I've got a lab of about 8 year old AMD FX-55 64 bit machines with
2G of Ram and Nvidia 5200 cards. I've had previous versions of
Fedora up to the current Fedora 16. The other day, was going to
do a test of upgrading machine and doing a clean install to see
the differences. Ran into some problems.
Tried preupgrade, and for some reason it would only offer the
upgrade to 17 and not 18? I then did the upgrade, and it went thru
the whold process, and finished with the message to reboot, but
the boot menu never had an option to do the upgrade. Just the
same old Fedora 16 kernels? The files were in the boot directory,
but nothing in the grub.cfg files?
Had that problem. Waited 24 hours for the repositories to finish whatever,
cleared /var/cache/yum myself, reran preupgrade and got the menu entry.
HINT: Because the video drivers are newer they may be more (or less) functional
on your hardware. If the preupgrade run hangs at boot time, check that, you may
need to add or remove nimodeset, set the xdriver to vesa, etc.
I have gotten most to work doing that.
I then burned a Fedora 18 DVD, and booted the machine, and
was expecting it to prompt for doing an upgrade or clean install.
Then all of the sudden it was doing a clean install, and had
repartitioned the disk with no prompting that it would wipe existing
file system.
Good news the system seems to work, but we have a number of
apps that we have always added to the desktop to run programs,
but doesn't seem to be a way to do that other than using
gnome-tweak-tool and setup options there, and I have copied the
shortcuts from other systems.
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