Preupgrade f10 i686 to f11 x86

[105547111]

Has anyone got a way to preupgrade a f10 i686 to f11 x86 as f11 has no plain 686 kernel. I am running a dual core 64 processor.

I saw some emails on devel list that someone did it successfully.

maybe they used this? http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/b...?buildID=99229 preupgrade-1.1.0-0.pre2.fc10.noarch.rpm i dont know if its been released to updates or in updates-testing

[marko]

Originally Posted by 105547111

Has anyone got a way to preupgrade a f10 i686 to f11 x86 as f11 has no plain 686 kernel. I am running a dual core 64 processor.

I saw some emails on devel list that someone did it successfully.

Do you mean go from F10 i686 to F11 Beta i586 ? Note that the 32bit packages in Rawhide are i586. I didn't know that until in the middle of the preupgrade reboot and install I got the scary message that my F10 was i386 based and that the F11 packages were i586 and that this would "likely not work". I went ahead with it and it worked fine so far.

Or did you mean you want to go from F10 i686 to F11 x86_64 to use
the 64 bit support on the cpu?

[105547111]

I mean to go to x86_64 but on the final F11 when it's out.

I read on the devel list someone did this successfully, but lacked the info.

I have a feeling there will be others in the same boat running i686 kernels and there is no i686 kernels in f11 except for xen (they dropped plain 686 kernel) and who wants to go backwards to a 586 kernel!

I have other machines single core pentiums so these I will go xen 686, but my three dual cores I would like 64 bit.

Someone (one of the devels) did this so it is possible.

I hope they build the option into preupgrade.

The 586 and 386 you refer to in packages, did you see are you now on a 586 kernel? You should use 686xen.

[marko]

Originally Posted by 105547111

and who wants to go backwards to a 586 kernel!

I wouldn't mind, the difference between 586 and 686 are a few instructions whose lack probably isn't very noticeable in normal use.

The 586 and 386 you refer to in packages, did you see are you now on a 586 kernel? You should use 686xen.

The pc I was preupgrading is an older P4, it wouldn't work well with Xen as it only has 1GB. Also Fedora currently is pretty poor as a Xen platform because you can't use current Fedora's as Guests on a Fedora host (no Dom0 support for Fedora guests beyond Fedora 8).