[olug] upgrade from Fedora 17 to Fedora 18

[Jon Larsen]

Since preupgrade has gone away, I used it's replacement, the oddly named 
'fedup'.  I upgraded my laptop and my workstation with it.  It worked 
alright.  If you haven't read the release notes, you probably wouldn't 
know about it.  The Fedora 18 DVD download cannot upgrade previous 
releases.  I don't know if that will be the norm going forward, or a 
result of the development window in re-writing the installer, which was 
one of the factors for the delay of F18.  There may be more info in blog 
posts or videos resulting from this past weekend's FUDcon in Lawrence, 
Kansas.

You can only upgrade 17 to 18.  So, if you are on anything older, you'll 
need to get to 17 first.  If that is the case, it's easier to do a fresh 
install of 18.  I did a fresh install of 18 on my home desktop mainly 
because I was going from i386 to x86_64.


First, make sure you have Fedora 17 updated to the latest packages.

Next, install fedup in Fedora 17 -
sudo yum install fedup

Perform the package download -
sudo fedup-cli --network 18 --debuglog fedoradebug.log --instrepo 
http://mirror.chpc.utah.edu/pub/fedora/linux/releases/18/Fedora/x86_64/os/

The --instrepo switch is optional, as fedup will search for a mirror to 
use.  I used it to choose a faster mirror to download the upgraded packages.

Once the downloads are done, fedup will modify grub2 to put an upgrade 
entry in it's boot menu.

Now reboot.  The upgrade option should be first. Select and wait.

Some observations:
The install screen shows a progress bar.  You can press Escape to see 
individual package process.
The screen does blank during the upgrade, but don't panic.  It's safe to 
press Shift to wake up the screen to see what's going on.

Jon L.

On 01/20/2013 02:45 PM, Sam Flint wrote:
> If only i had that yesterday! had to do a reinstall...
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> On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Lou Duchez <lou at paprikash.com> wrote:
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>> So last time a new Fedora came out (Fedora 17), I posted my upgrade
>> instructions, which were kind of hairy.  That's because it was a Very
>> Special Upgrade, where they were merging the /bin, /sbin, and /lib
>> directories with /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, and /usr/lib respectively.  So it
>> required a fair amount of hand-holding.
>>
>> But lest you get the wrong idea about Fedora, the upgrade from Fedora 17
>> to 18 is pretty standard, and here's what it consists of:
>>
>> 1) yum update
>>
>>      A preventative measure, because it's best to make sure your system
>> isn't all outdated and weird.
>>
>> 2) yum clean all
>>
>>      Another preventative measure, to make sure yum isn't all full of cruft.
>>
>> 3) rpm --import https://fedoraproject.org/**static/DE7F38BD.txt<https://fedoraproject.org/static/DE7F38BD.txt>
>>
>>      You need a new key to process the new RPMs.
>>
>> 4) yum --releasever=18 --disableplugin=presto distro-sync
>>
>>      This is what does the updating.
>>
>> 5) rpm --rebuilddb
>>
>>      This is the only "special" step this time around.  There's a change to
>> the yum database structure, so you have to rebuild the yum database after
>> upgrading your system.
>>
>> 6) yum repolist
>>
>>      This step is just to confirm that you're on the Fedora 18 repositories
>> now.
>>
>> 7) df -h | grep /boot
>>
>>      This is just to determine whether your boot device is /dev/sda,
>> /dev/sdb, or what.  You'll need that for ...
>>
>> 8) /sbin/grub2-install /dev/[device]
>>
>>      This installs the new boot loader.  What you need to specify here is
>> the device (/sda), not the partition (/sda1).
>>
>> 9) reboot
>>
>>      Say a small prayer and reboot.  It'll almost certainly reboot just
>> fine; I did six servers yesterday and they all came back up.
>>
>>
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