vijay bhide 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. > > I stopped at this stage and cancelled the upgrade process.Which option I > should use so that existing system is not disturbed.I am giving below > partition table. > If you really want to try this, and I can't see that it will work[1], the option of installing another disk to get the boot partition is the next step.
[1] work in this case would mean take less time and effort than doing the upgrade entirely by hand. I think you have to upgrade in three steps, because some important things changed with several releases, such as RPM format and some things in /lib and /etc which are layed out a little differently. -- Bill Davidsen <david...@tmr.com> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- 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
