Upgrade FC6 to FC8,

[amiableboy]

Hi all,

I am using FC6, now I want to upgrade to FC8. Please let me know what should I do?

Thanks you in advance

[daydreamer]

I am planning to upgrade to Fedora Core 8 soon.

The things that I am trying to do just now:

(1) burn an FC8 CD or DVD first. (check those checksums and make sure that cdrecord works!)
(2) Backup all your data - saved webpages , applications etc...
(3) Make a note of all the additional rpm's you have installed eg. nvidia
(4) Decide on any improvements you would like to make to your file system.
(I am thinking of having two Linux system partitions, so that I can upgrade one, while still being able to
rollback to the other if things don't work out. I already have a dual boot system - Linix/Windows).
(5) Save any configuration files you may have installed all over the place (hostnames, Google-mail certificates etc...)

Once you have your install CD, reboot your system, set up the partition sizes, and install the new Fedora. Reboot and then reinstall those rpm's that you added later...

[cr4ck3r]

What happend with the mod of the How-to box? those kind of post should be moved to appropriate place.

[ihavenoname]

Hi all,

I am using FC6, now I want to upgrade to FC8. Please let me know what should I do?

Thanks you in advance


Umm, not to sound mean, but I think this is the wrong section, from my understanding this is the area where you post "how" to do something, not "ask how".

Having said that, I will see what I can do for you. The "suggested" and supported method is to back-up your files and format your fedora partition, and then re-install with the live-cd or what not. This is probably the best idea since Fedora Core 6 to Fedora 8 is a huge jump since the reshuffled the repositories. This can be made less of a hassle if you do two things when you are installing fedora.

1. Have a separate /home partition from / so that you can just for man / and leave /home the way it is.
2. The second thing is use LVM, since this will allow you to resize your partitions as needed without having to format.


Now: if you don't want to format and re-install, then there are two more ways to do this and the difficulty of this will really depend on if you used external repositories or not. Be advised, you may be in for a hassle so make sure everything is backed-up and that you have some time on your hand

The First Way: Use the install DVD (just like you were re-installing) but rather than choosing install choose upgrade from the list. For this method I HIGHLY recommend you only use it if you have only used official fedora repositories. I've never used this way so if someone else has any more pointers they should add them

The Second Method:
1.
Backup your files

2.
If you have only used official Fedora repositories then go to step 4 (this means, you have not used livna or rpmforge etc.) else go on to step 3.

3.
If you have used 3rd party repositories then I would wait a few days after the release so that those repositories can be updated.
Now usually they will have a "release rpm" which changes all your repositories to point to the new release, I don't know where to find this, so unless someone else knows use this second method.
Open a terminal type
su -
nano /etc/yum-repos.d/* # note I am not sure as to the EXACT name of the directory but it has yum repo in its name.


Now for every file that comes up that has a development or rawhide in its name, change the enabled value from 0 to 1. After you do that type ctrl+x then type yes then hit enter. Hopefully you will come across the .repo file for all your third party repositores. If you cannot find one, hopefully it will be ok because once you run the second upgrade you should be automatically start upgrading for the new repo.

4.
Now in a terminal type

yum upgrade

5.
Once that is finished type yum upgrade again just to make sure that everything was upgraded properly.

6.
Next, pray and then restart and hope all goes well. This is just a very simplified run down of how you would do this.




Now, this was a quick rough outline of how you would do this the document here (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq) is probably MUCH better then what I have done. If you have an further questions feel free to ask.

[Wayne]

Moved to 'Installation Help'

Wayne

[ihavenoname]

What happend with the mod of the How-to box? those kind of post should be moved to appropriate place.

errr...you beat me to the punch on that one...I blame this retarded Ubuntu install that spontaneously goes into a hard freeze, can't wait to switch to F8, I just hope yum has become good enough to replace apt-get (the main reason I used Ubuntu).

[cr4ck3r]

yeah, it's just a reminder then. I just want to keep the forum *clean* :)
Sorry if this post annoyed you (ihavenoname).

[The New World]

Wouldn't it be better to do a complete install using the new dvd iso after backing up your files.
All the problems I had upgrading from 5 to 7 disappeared after I decided to take the other option.
@daydreamer your suggestions are good ones except if you had problems and decided to "roll back" to anything less than F7 considering the support for FC6 finishes soon.

[ihavenoname]

yeah, it's just a reminder then. I just want to keep the forum *clean* :)
Sorry if this post annoyed you (ihavenoname).

nope I wasn't annoyed at all! It was all in good humor.