How to upgrade from FC8 -->> FC9 Beta?

[hariprs]

Hi,

Does anyone know how to upgrade to FC9 beta from FC8 using YUM?

[Seve]

( Moved to Alpha - Beta )

[Wayne]

Not recommended, especially if you're not sure what you're doing...

Wayne

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

Does anyone know how to upgrade to FC9 beta from FC8 using YUM?

Disable fedora.repo and fedora-updates.repo and enable fedora-development.repo. Refer http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Testing for more details. For installation, testing I recommend the latest rawhide snapshot at

http://torrent.fedoraproject.org

[stevea]

How is switching the BETA software an upgrade ?

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

Well in technical terms, all packages have newer versions. So it is an upgrade. Now if you want to argue semantics, go ahead.

[ejket]

For installation, testing I recommend the latest rawhide snapshot at

http://torrent.fedoraproject.org
I just tried that and got "Bad File or Directory" error on the kernel on first boot after install.

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

Make sure you burned right and file a bug report. Posting here doesn't reach the right developers. Refer

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugsAndFeatureRequests

[javier_cepa]

Hi,

[root@deymos ~]#rpm -Uhv ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-9-0.1.rc.noarch.rpm

edit yum.repos.d repositories and enable the new ones
[root@deymos ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-rawhide.repo
# These packages are untested and still under development. This
# repository is used for development of new releases.
#
# This repository can see significant daily turnover and major
# functionality changes which cause unexpected problems with other
# development packages. Please use these packages if you want to work
# with the Fedora developers by testing these new development packages.
#
# fedora-test-list@redhat.com is available as a discussion forum for
# testing and troubleshooting for development packages in conjunction
# with new test releases.
#
# More information is available at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Testing
#
# Reproducible and reportable issues should be filed at
# http://bugzilla.redhat.com/.
#
# Product: Fedora
# Version: rawhide

[rawhide]
name=Fedora - Rawhide
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/$basearch/os/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=$basearch
enabled1=
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

[rawhide-debuginfo]
name=Fedora - Rawhide - Debug
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/$basearch/debug/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide-debug&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

[rawhide-source]
name=Fedora - Rawhide - Source
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/source/SRPMS/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide-source&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora

[root@deymos ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-testing.repo
[updates-testing]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Test Updates
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/$releasever/$basearch/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-testing-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test

[updates-testing-debuginfo]
name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - Test Updates Debug
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/$releasever/$basearch/debug/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-testing-debug-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test

[updates-testing-source]
name=Fedora $releasever - Test Updates Source
failovermethod=priority
#baseurl=http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/testing/$releasever/SRPMS/
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=updates-testing-source-f$releasever&arch=$basearch
enabled=0
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test


[root@deymos ~]#yum upgrade

It works relatively fine. Perhaps you need to uninstall some packages to resolve dependencies.

Sorry for my bad english... :(