On 06/29/2012 01:41:42 PM, Max Pyziur wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm going through the recent release cycles of both Fedora and CentOS > in > upgrading machines. > > I've had to do a fresh install on a machine where the available /boot > partition size of 200MB was not adequate. Consequently, I created a > /boot > partition of 1GB and did a fresh install. (This was for moving from > F15->F16; I then successfully upgraded to F17.) > > The issue for me was matching the installation to what I had > previously. > My approach was to store a list of rpms (rpm -qa > F15RpmList.txt) > and > then sdiff -s to a list of F16 Rpms. > > Is there a more efficient procedure than this?
I have a couple of Perl scripts to automate the listing and re-loading of rpms. they essentially automate what you're doing. If its not too late, here's a suggestion. Put / and boot in their own partitions, then put /home, /usr/local, and so on in their own partitions. Then, when you're faced with a new release, you can leave these partitions untouched, and merely install the new release. There are any number of administrative details with the new release, but at least their are details over which you have control, as opposed to those resulting from an upgrade that didn't quite work :-). -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
