I just completed upgrading a FC14 virtual machine running under virtual box and it went pretty well. Now I am trying to do the same upgrade only on a FC15 standalone machine to FC16. It looks like it can't find any of the FC15 repos which is odd since FC14 went so well. Should I expect this to work or is the FC15 release just too old? Why did the FC14 upgrade go so well?
TIA - Tod
Am 20.02.2013 18:35, schrieb Tod Thomas:
I just completed upgrading a FC14 virtual machine running under virtual box and it went pretty well. Now I am trying to do the same upgrade only on a FC15 standalone machine to FC16. It looks like it can't find any of the FC15 repos which is odd since FC14 went so well. Should I expect this to work or is the FC15 release just too old?
F16 is EOL now F15 and F14 are EOL since a very long time
Why did the FC14 upgrade go so well?
luck by selected a mirror which not deleted the files
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 12:35:26PM -0500, Tod Thomas wrote:
I just completed upgrading a FC14 virtual machine running under virtual box and it went pretty well. Now I am trying to do the same upgrade only on a FC15 standalone machine to FC16. It looks like it can't find any of the FC15 repos which is odd since FC14 went so well. Should I expect this to work or is the FC15 release just too old? Why did the FC14 upgrade go so well?
I don't know the answer to this offhand, but are you doing this as an academic exercise or for some purpose? I think backing up data and config and then doing a clean F18 install is probably your best bet.
On 02/20/2013 12:40 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 20.02.2013 18:35, schrieb Tod Thomas:
I just completed upgrading a FC14 virtual machine running under virtual box and it went pretty well. Now I am trying to do the same upgrade only on a FC15 standalone machine to FC16. It looks like it can't find any of the FC15 repos which is odd since FC14 went so well. Should I expect this to work or is the FC15 release just too old?
F16 is EOL now F15 and F14 are EOL since a very long time
Why did the FC14 upgrade go so well?
luck by selected a mirror which not deleted the files
As it turns out there are a lot of mirrors that have quite an extensive inventory of Fedora releases. The trick is to find one and:
- login as root - download the current releases.txt (http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/releases.txt) - hack it for the version you want to upgrade to, removing all others - comment out both the mirrorlist and installmirrorlist lines - insert baseurl and installurl lines pointing them to your mirror repo - run preupgrade (not preupgrad-cli)
Here's my uncommented fc15->fc16 release.txt:
[Fedora 16 (Verne)] stable=True preupgrade-ok=True version=16 baseurl=http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/$basearch/os/ installurl=http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/$basearch/os/
Both my machines are rolled by hand. I upgraded from fc14 on one machine and fc15 on another to fc16 without a problem. It seems that preupgrade-cli doesn't read the releases.txt from the current directory (in my case root), I'm not sure that's consistent or an error on my part but running preupgrade worked fine. I was kind of concerned reading all the problems with preupgrade but everything went without a problem. I'll be trying fc16->fc17 if I can this weekend.
Oh, and something reactived my Caps Lock key along the way. Grrr :)
- Tod
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