On Sat, Jun 09, 2007 at 09:28:22AM -0700, David Mack wrote: > Yesterday, I updated a system from FC6 to F7 entirely across the > Internet. There aren't a huge number of problems that would need to be > fixed to make this process painless: You have a simpler way to do the same if you have a suitable server a connection to it which is fast and reliable enough. Grab vmlinuz and initrd.img from an os/isolinux which corresponds to an architecture of your installation. Drop those in /boot and boot using those. That kernel does not need or expect any parameters unless you want to use something like 'text'. This should get you anaconda running. Follow prompts picking up an over a network installation method suitable to your circumstances. > 4) after step 3 completed, I was able to go back and run yum update with > no exclusions and install quagga and the other things I had initially > had to exclude. That will be the same only you would not have to deinstall quagga "and the other things". If you are using additional repositories make sure before starting updates that their files in /etc/yum.repos.d/ are correct for your brand new distro. If you have not done that yet then install 'yum-utils' package and run package-cleanup --problems and also package-cleanup --orphans This will point places which may require an additional attention. If you are not doing using NFS method then you will need enough of a disk space in /var/cache/yum to hold all packages that will be needed in that process. Also the same during follow up updates. When running updates it is a good idea to have 'keepcache=1' in /etc/yum.conf. You do not want to dump few hundreds of megabytes of cache because something run into minor troubles. > > Now someone can tell me the right way to have done this. Every way which works is right. :-) OTOH this is "testing" list. Michal -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
