Re: yum: F9 => F10 in-place upgrade

Gerry Reno wrote:
> David Timms wrote:
>> Gerry Reno wrote:
>>> I've been trying to do an in-place upgrade from F9 to F10. I 
>>> downloaded and installed the Fedora 10 fedora-release rpms. And made 
>>> sure the F9 versions were removed. But when I run 'yum upgrade' it 
>>> say "No packages". Is there something else now we have to do?
>> Probably a good question for [email protected], however:
>> 1. Do you know about preupgrade ?
>> It pre-downloads all the metadata, rpms, boot images etc while you 
>> continue to use Fedora, then when you are ready, you reboot into the 
>> installer, confirm installation and before too long, you have F10 going.
>> And is one of the supported upgrade methods (the other being upgrade 
>> via the dvd disk itself).
>>
>> 2. The Fedora wiki covers inplace live upgrades, and has some hints 
>> and tips:
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/yum/YumUpgradeFaq
>>
> Thanks David. Yes, we know about preupgrade. What we have is a machine 
> that was just upgraded to F9 that will not respond to keyboard and 
> mouse and therefore we cannot use GUI tools. So we were just going to 
> move it up to F10 using the old in-place upgrade method that we'd used 
> for a long time. We can do this by remote login of course. But for 
> whatever reason we cannot get the upgrade to work. I think it might 
> have something to do with the transition files that were necessary 
> because of key issues with F9.
>
I just found that preupgrade has a cli version. So I force installed the 
old F9 release files and we'll see how this works. But I think the old 
in-place method needs to be working as well.

Regards,
Gerry