Gerry Reno wrote:
Gerry Reno wrote:
David Timms wrote:
Gerry Reno wrote:
I've been trying to do an in-place upgrade from F9 to F10. I
downloaded and installed the Fedora 10 fedora-release rpms. And
made sure the F9 versions were removed. But when I run 'yum
upgrade' it say "No packages". Is there something else now we have
to do?
Probably a good question for fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx, however:
1. Do you know about preupgrade ?
It pre-downloads all the metadata, rpms, boot images etc while you
continue to use Fedora, then when you are ready, you reboot into the
installer, confirm installation and before too long, you have F10
going.
And is one of the supported upgrade methods (the other being upgrade
via the dvd disk itself).
2. The Fedora wiki covers inplace live upgrades, and has some hints
and tips:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/yum/YumUpgradeFaq
Thanks David. Yes, we know about preupgrade. What we have is a
machine that was just upgraded to F9 that will not respond to
keyboard and mouse and therefore we cannot use GUI tools. So we were
just going to move it up to F10 using the old in-place upgrade method
that we'd used for a long time. We can do this by remote login of
course. But for whatever reason we cannot get the upgrade to work. I
think it might have something to do with the transition files that
were necessary because of key issues with F9.
I just found that preupgrade has a cli version. So I force installed
the old F9 release files and we'll see how this works. But I think the
old in-place method needs to be working as well.
Well, good new and bad news. Good news is that preupgrade-cli worked and
we got F10 to load. The bad news is that we get the dreaded GRUB prompt
on reboot. And worse, in qemu-kvm it is refusing to boot from CDROM
drive which apparently has been an ongoing problem so now we have no way
to recover. Jeez, I wish some of this stuff was a little more tested
before just throwing it out there. </grouse>
Regards,
Gerry
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