F13 to F14 Beta On-line Upgrade.

[1PW1PW]

I went the on-line Yum "preupdate" route.

The upgrade was painfully slow on a P4 (Northwood) 2GHz 32bit 2Mb system and took over 3 hours using
Comcast's High Speed Internet cable access. :(

After rebooting into F14, I saw that 161 updates were waiting and they took an additional hour.

Still, all seems to have gone OK. Crossing my fingers...

BTW, the default F14 boot-up splash screen looks like an Ubuntu delinquent threw a rock through my monitor's screen. :D

Oy vey!

Best wishes and good luck to all.

[Vespa]

I did the upgrade from Fedora 13 to 14 Beta on both my desktop and Laptop with what I would call a success. I used Yum method with distribution-synchronization method leigh123linux mentions in the sticky http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=250331 .

Prior to the upgrade, I followed the steps 1-3 on the traditional Yum upgrade FAQ (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq). Specifically step 3 where I cleaned up config files, unused and lost packages. I also had to remove the kdeutils-printer-applet package on both machines as they broke the upgrade. I could not force RPM to install the rpmfusion 14 packages for some reason so I uninstalled those repositories and reinstalled them after the upgrade. The upgrade worked fine on both of my machines though I did have to add --skip-broken and --nogpgcheck. (I am sure there is a way to have imported the GPG key, I just didn't take the time to look it up).

yum --releasever=14 --disablerepo=updates distribution-synchronization --nogpgcheck --skip-broken

After the upgrade, I reinstalled RPM fusion and did another yum update to get the latest packages. This took just as long as the upgrade. I use KDE with RPMFusion's Nvidia driver. I found I had to delete my ~/.kde folder as KDE was freezing up (I don't remember the post I saw this recommendation in, but it worked for me). I had to boot to my previous Kernel as well as I will wait until a new Nvidia driver is released.

So far, Fedora 14 looks great and is running well for me on both machines. I scour these forums all the time for help - so thank you everyone. For an upgrade to a beta, I'd say this wasn't bad at all.

Cheers

[cgrim]

Kernel and nvidia drivers from F13 works on your F14 instance now? No problems have occurred with new X.org server?

[Vespa]

My previous kernel was on Fedora 13. X will not start for me on the latest kernel as the Nvidia driver would not load and RPM fusion did not have an updated driver last I checked. I don't mind waiting for an update rather than using one of the other methods of acquiring the driver. Other than a minor KDE issue, so far so good.

My current Kernel is: 2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64
And it is using: kmod-nvidia-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64-256.53-1.fc13.4.x86_64


$ X -version

X.Org X Server 1.9.0
Release Date: 2010-08-20
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: x86-06 2.6.32-44.1.el6.x86_64
Current Operating System: Linux 2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Sep 15 03:36:55 UTC 2010 x86_64
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/md2 rhgb quiet vga=791 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=us rdblacklist=nouveau
Build Date: 13 September 2010 05:58:20PM
Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.9.0-9.fc14
Current version of pixman: 0.18.4
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.

$ sudo cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 256.53 Fri Aug 27 20:27:48 PDT 2010
GCC version: gcc version 4.4.4 20100630 (Red Hat 4.4.4-10) (GCC)

[cgrim]

Thanks for your info - so I'll try to install latest F13 kernel and nvidia drivers back. I removed them during experiments with wifi driver on F14 :-(