On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 00:52 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 05:48:18 +0000, > vijay bhide <bhid...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > I downloaded Fedora 13 preupgrade which is my /boot directory of my > > existing Fedora 8 installation.I booted to preupgrade image to start > > upgrade.I reached a stage where 4installation options were offered.One was > > to remove completely existing installations ,second was removing existing > > linux installatios,third was to compress existing Ubuntu 10.04 and the last > > one was to install on free space.In all the options I was prompted to > > create boot partition of 500MB.In my existing system I have Win XP on sda1 > > Mandriva on sda 5,Swap on sda 7,Fedora8 on sda 8 and Data(Fat) on sda > > 6,Ubuntu 9.1 on sda9,Ubuntu 10.04 on sda10.Grub is on MBR.and no boot > > partition. > > You aren't going to be able to go directly from Fedora 8 to Fedora 13 (without > a LOT of pain). > > You are probably better off saving your data and your config and then doing > a fresh install.
Why do you say this ? I'd like to see him back up his data and try. He really has nothing to lose. If it doesn't work he can wipe the drive and do a fresh install. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
