I had not heard of it until after i started the process of just using yum directly, but when i get some free time to work on this again it looks like a good option On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 8:19 PM, David Timms <dtimms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Casey Boone wrote: >> I am experiencing a problem in trying to upgrade a machine from fc8 to >> fc9 via yum. What I am seeing is a lot of this: > > Have you heard about preupgrade ? It seems to have been recently updated: > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=6045 > It hasn't made updates-testing yet, but can downloaded straight from koji. > > The idea was to: > - download only the required rpms to complete the upgrade {often lots > less than a full DVD}. > - download the boot/installer part > - configure the boot/installer part as a grub selection > > When you are ready, you reboot, and the normal anaconda installer boots, > knows it's an upgrade and performs the upgrade {with required packages > already downloaded}. > > I tried earlier versions, and they succeeded OK. > > DaveT. > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum > _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
