On 05/04/2010 05:05 PM, James Laska wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 16:34 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: >> On 05/04/2010 02:06 PM, James Laska wrote: >>> If you are attempting to upgrade from Fedora 10 (which is end of life), >>> you'll likely want to use a Fedora 13 boot.iso or DVD. The latest >>> preupgrade packages are not available for EOL'd versions of Fedora. >>> It's possible you could take the latest preupgrade code [1], and rebuild >>> and run it on your Fedora 10 system. But your mileage will vary. >> >> Yes, yes, yes. It has already downloaded the necessary F13 packages, >> and the installer can't find my root partition to mount. I was hoping >> someone could tell me *what* it was looking for that it couldn't find, >> and what I could do to help it find it.... All it needs to do is mount >> the necessary partitions and then start the installations. Somewhere >> there is a script or program that would logically be the next step(s), I >> was hoping someone could point them out to me.... >> >> I suppose I could just mount them by hand at that point, and to the RPM >> updates by hand.... I was hoping for a more automated process that >> would work. > > preupgrade is the automated process. You'll likely need to get your > hands dirty to work around any issues that are resolved in newer > preupgrade releases. > > You can try building and running the latest preupgrade on your Fedora 10 > system. > > Or, you can try playing with the boot arguments preupgrade setup. I > don't have them listed in front of me at the moment, but you need to > tell the installer where to find the packages on disk (repo=), and where > to find the stage#2 install image (stage2=). Good catch, my repo= was: hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade Since /var/ is a mounted partition, I changed it to include /var's UUID and modified the path to /cache/yum/preupgrade I'll give that a try. Thanks. > Acceptable values for both parameters are listed at > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options > > Thanks, > James > -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
