Hello!
Just thought I'd present this problem for comment/help/hints:
* want to upgrade from Fedora Core 11 to 13 * I have a 64-bit system with Vista as a host o/s, running VMWare, and FC11 as a client o/s * cloned my FC11 as a backup * ran preupgrade, got expected problem with 200MB /boot, but preupgrade said that it could continue downloading (presumably to the larger partition) so I did * preupgrade told me to reboot, so I did * began upgrade process; ran Test. First oddity: Test said it was testing media for FC10 , but test passed. * Problem#1: after test finished, upgrade wanted me to install a disk. There is no such disk -- preupgrade put the upgrade information mostly into /boot, I presume. * had to shutdown the upgrade process * rebooted (I figured I'd try skipping the test this time) * Problem#2: not running upgrade, instead just does a normal boot into FC11
In inspecting /boot, I see a fair amount of upgrade info there. The help for this indicates that I should be using grub to select the upgrade; there is no grub since FC is running as a virtual machine client.
At this point I'm considering downloading FC13, writing DVDs, and doing a new virtual client. I was hoping to avoid all that, especially as my FC11 has never recognized the DVD writer drive, so I'll end up having to do it from another machine.
Regards, Chip Campbell
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote:
To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] preupgrade
On 08/12/2010 03:22 PM, Charles Campbell wrote:
- want to upgrade from Fedora Core 11 to 13
you have the wrong list. try the Fedora lists!
Hi Chip.
There's a lot of help available on the fedora forums:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/
Kind Regards,
Keith Roberts
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Charles Campbell wrote:
Hello!
Just thought I'd present this problem for comment/help/hints:
- want to upgrade from Fedora Core 11 to 13
<snip> First, this is the CentOS list - you might want to post to the redhat mailing list, or the fedora-specific list.
That being said, I've had to upgrade three or so machines fro FC10 to 13, and I now *LOATHE* Fedora. It broke the video on at least one machine (older Nvidia card), and I could *not* get gnome to work - all I got was a splash screen, and a line, about a pixel or 10 wide, about three inches high, and *nothing* I did would make it work. I finally had to uninstall gnome, and install kde, and got that working... and I'm still *very* unhappy that it never leaves the login box empty, it keeps the last person logged in visible.
And it's crashed several times - as in frozen, and I had to power cycle it. The machine I've worked on most never had trouble before that, and it's *really* aggravating, since I do offline backups on it, which can take hours, and it hangs in the middle.
And I've had to fsck the thing several times....
mark "fedora == bleeding edge, != leading edge"
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