On 02/20/2013 12:40 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 20.02.2013 18:35, schrieb Tod Thomas:
I just completed upgrading a FC14 virtual machine running under virtual box and
it went pretty well. Now I am
trying to do the same upgrade only on a FC15 standalone machine to FC16. It
looks like it can't find any of the
FC15 repos which is odd since FC14 went so well. Should I expect this to work
or is the FC15 release just too
old?
F16 is EOL now
F15 and F14 are EOL since a very long time
Why did the FC14 upgrade go so well?
luck by selected a mirror which not deleted the files
As it turns out there are a lot of mirrors that have quite an extensive
inventory of Fedora releases. The trick is to find one and:
- login as root
- download the current releases.txt
(http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/releases.txt)
- hack it for the version you want to upgrade to, removing all others
- comment out both the mirrorlist and installmirrorlist lines
- insert baseurl and installurl lines pointing them to your mirror repo
- run preupgrade (not preupgrad-cli)
Here's my uncommented fc15->fc16 release.txt:
[Fedora 16 (Verne)]
stable=True
preupgrade-ok=True
version=16
baseurl=http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/$basearch/os/
installurl=http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/$basearch/os/
Both my machines are rolled by hand. I upgraded from fc14 on one
machine and fc15 on another to fc16 without a problem. It seems that
preupgrade-cli doesn't read the releases.txt from the current directory
(in my case root), I'm not sure that's consistent or an error on my
part but running preupgrade worked fine. I was kind of concerned
reading all the problems with preupgrade but everything went without a
problem. I'll be trying fc16->fc17 if I can this weekend.
Oh, and something reactived my Caps Lock key along the way. Grrr :)
- Tod
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