On 3/17/13, Patrick Dupre <patrick.du...@univ-littoral.fr> wrote:
> the problem is that the update to fedora 17 failed (probably) because the
> /usr /usr/lib and /
> partitions need to be on the same partition!

Fedora 17+ supports a separate /usr just fine.  It's the separate
/usr/lib that's screwing it up.  (I suspect the upgrade process isn't
mounting /usr/lib.)  Since this is not a common configuration, you'll
need to do a little extra work to accomplish an upgrade.

You need to instruct dracut to mount the necessary partitions during
early boot.  To do so, create a file /etc/fstab.sys and copy the lines
for /, /usr, and /usr/lib from /etc/fstab to it.  Then, create a file
/etc/dracut.conf.d/02-fstab-sys.conf with this line:

add_dracutmodules += " fstab-sys "

(Note that spaces inside the quotation marks; they are necessary.)

You can then follow the yum upgrade instructions here to update to Fedora 17:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_16_-.3E_Fedora_17

-T.C.
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