I have tried to update a FC2 system with FC4 and FC3. Each release just asks me what type of installation I want. I want to upgrrade, but that does not seem to be an option. What does anaconda look for to determine if the current system can be upgraded or not? Fedora-release and redhat-release are in /etc and contains the information for Fedora Core 2. What do I need to do to get anaconda to let me do an upgrade?
Jim
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 17:46 -0700, James C. Bevier wrote:
I have tried to update a FC2 system with FC4 and FC3. Each release just asks me what type of installation I want. I want to upgrrade, but that does not seem to be an option. What does anaconda look for to determine if the current system can be upgraded or not? Fedora-release and redhat-release are in /etc and contains the information for Fedora Core 2. What do I need to do to get anaconda to let me do an upgrade?
What happens if you boot the installer with:
linux askmethod
Thomas
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 17:46 -0700, James C. Bevier wrote:
I have tried to update a FC2 system with FC4 and FC3. Each release just asks me what type of installation I want. I want to upgrrade, but that does not seem to be an option. What does anaconda look for to determine if the current system can be upgraded or not? Fedora-release and redhat-release are in /etc and contains the information for Fedora Core 2. What do I need to do to get anaconda to let me do an upgrade?
Or maybe
linux upgradeany
Thomas
James C. Bevier wrote:
I have tried to update a FC2 system with FC4 and FC3. Each release just asks me what type of installation I want. I want to upgrrade, but that does not seem to be an option. What does anaconda look for to determine if the current system can be upgraded or not? Fedora-release and redhat-release are in /etc and contains the information for Fedora Core 2. What do I need to do to get anaconda to let me do an upgrade?
Jim
Jim:
As best as I can recall, the option to upgrade appears after you select to install, (by pressing enter at the linux: prompt) and after the media check sections. Somewhere down the road, you are told that some versions of linux are detected and you are at that time asked if you want to upgrade or wipe out existing installs. Basically, AFAICT the only difference between the options is that upgrading does not reformat partitions so that existing files are overwritten.
A word of caution though. when you upgrade to FC4 some programs are not upgraded as they have been moved to extras, so be sure to do a yum update as soon as you can
Scott
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Cameron" thomas.cameron@camerontech.com To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" fedora-test-list@redhat.com Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 9:00 PM Subject: Re: Anaconda question
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 17:46 -0700, James C. Bevier wrote:
I have tried to update a FC2 system with FC4 and FC3. Each release just asks me what type of installation I want. I want to upgrrade, but that does not seem to be an option. What does anaconda look for to determine if the current system can be upgraded or not? Fedora-release and redhat-release are in /etc and contains the information for Fedora Core 2. What do I need to do to get anaconda to let me do an upgrade?
What happens if you boot the installer with:
linux askmethod
Thomas
Trying "linux upgradeany" or "linux askmethod" gets me to the same install page with no option to upgrade. The disk I am using is a copy of a 120 GB disk. I mode the copy by creating identical partitions as the original and then using "find . -name -mount -print | cpio -pdvm /new" from the /old mounted partition. I ran on the new copy about three months and had no problems. I tried to upgrade the 'old' disk and anaconda gave me the proper upgrade option??? It was able to find the install. I did an 'fdisk -l' on both disks and the partitioning is identical except for the size of the last partition. The disks were from different manufactures, so there is a little different in size. I coppied the 'new' disk back over the 'old' disk and was able to do an update without problems. So, what does anaconda not like about the new disk? I still have it, so I can try all kinds of stuff if someone is interested in fixing anaconda so it sees the Fedora installed on it.
Jim
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