Comments on: Fedora 11 Upgrade Tutorial

By: otilrak

otilrak — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:27:20 +0000

is it the same procedure to upgrade from fedora 11 to fedora 15?

By: hasan

hasan — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:33:00 +0000

i m not abel to install fedora 11 they say oprating system not found.

By: Nicolas Martinez Cano

Nicolas Martinez Cano — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:57:18 +0000

I installed fedora 11 and centos 4 on two discs. When you install the second OS startup crushes first and not let him start. Where should I put the grub to work.
Thank you very much
Nicolas

By: chris

chris — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:08:01 +0000

@Dave Miller
you can also use blkid to list all the disk UUIDs.

@sundeep
You should not upgrade from Fedora 5 to Fedora 11. Fedora 11 has changes in the rpmlibs that require you to upgrade to Fedora 10 first, and update Fedora 10 (or at least rpm and associated libs) before attempting an upgrade to Fedora 11.

There’s a great breakdown of caveats with upgrades for specific versions here:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq

By: sundeep

sundeep — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:59:55 +0000

Hi do you have any idea, how to upgrade fedora 5 to the fedora 11 version? I don’t want to overwrite the ‘ / ‘ partition. I just want to upgrade everything else. Is it possible via a fedora 11 live cd?

By: Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji

Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:49:26 +0000

@Nitish Varshney,
Unless you have setup disk or the image is stored on the machine, the machine has to be connected to internet. And it downloads around 2GB of data from internet for this auto-upgrade.
If its a BSNL will limited speed and limited download capacity connection, then please achieve the installation disk from somewhere and then proceed with normal installation by booting the machine with that disk.
Thanks.

By: Nitish Varshney

Nitish Varshney — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:02:03 +0000

Sir,
Does this work if fedora 10 is not connected to server. problem is that I am utilizing dual boot with fedora 10 and windows XP. My BSNL network works on windows but can’t detect network on fedora. So, please tell me a way by which I can upgrade to fedora 11 without connecting through net.
Thanks.

By: Anders

Anders — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:52:36 +0000

Just upgraded from Fedora 9 to Fedora 11 via xterm in Gnome Desktop, just by typing

# yum install preupgrade
# preupgrade

It took about 1½ hour, everything still working !

By: Foolestroupe

Foolestroupe — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:26:09 +0000

Attempting to go from F10 (which installed without a hitch from the Live CD) to F11 (via Live CD) on a IBM T23 laptop is frustrating – it trashes the HD – and crashes with errors saying that the file system is not there! (I can’t save the bugfix file!) – it seems that anaconda has errors when trying to umount the now non-existent / filesystem!

By: Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji

Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:08:41 +0000

To call the Upgrade GUI, just type “preupgrade” in your terminal. And the GUI will start with some status messages flowing on the terminal screen as well.

By: Richard Powell

Richard Powell — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:24:16 +0000

Dave Miller's post at least got me on the correct path. Though I had to manually code in the IP address to fix this problem for myself. Details of the fix can be found can be found at the following location. Link Had to add the following parameters to the grub.conf configuration. ksdevice=eth0 ip=xx.xxx.xx.xx netmask=xxx.xxx.xxx.x gateway=xx.xxx.xxx.xx

By: sammi

sammi — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:29:24 +0000

you can install virtulabox on your pc, and then setup fedora as the guest OS. I’m using virtualbox on vista and use wireless network. fedora works perfect for me.

Sammi

By: Aaron Wegner

Aaron Wegner — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:17:08 +0000

I just want to add that the grubby command from above did not add the line to set GRUB’s root device. I had to add

root (hd1,0)

just below the “Fedora 11″ title line to boot into the upgrade, which is the first partition of the second hard drive. Edit your grub.conf file and copy the root line from the configuration you were booting. Also, if you are having trouble copying and pasting the grubby command from above in your terminal, note that the double quotes are not the standard double quote character, and that the long dash character before the grubby options should actually be two short dashes (standard long options).

By: Aaron Wegner

Aaron Wegner — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:12:37 +0000

I had a problem with the preupgrade program because the grubby failed to update my grub.conf file. In my case I didn’t have a file /etc/grub.conf file.

# grubby –info=ALL
error opening /etc/grub.conf for read: No such file or directory

If you launch preupgrade from a terminal you can see printouts in the background, and one of the final printouts is the grubby command that updates your grub.conf file. My last background printout that appears at the same time that the GUI prompts me to reboot is:

DEBUG /sbin/grubby –title=”Upgrade to Fedora 11 (Leonidas)” –remove-kernel=”/boot/upgrade/vmlinuz” –add-kernel=”/boot/upgrade/vmlinuz” –initrd=”/boot/upgrade/initrd.img” –args=”preupgrade repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade stage2=hd:UUID=8c2458eb-9a93-48f8-8abc-0c1c0b356d97:/boot/upgrade/install.img ks=hd:UUID=8c2458eb-9a93-48f8-8abc-0c1c0b356d97:/boot/upgrade/ks.cfg”

So, if you have a grub.conf file in a nonstandard location, you can issue the command manually at the command line as such:

# /sbin/grubby –title=”Upgrade to Fedora 11 (Leonidas)” –remove-kernel=”/boot/upgrade/vmlinuz” –add-kernel=”/boot/upgrade/vmlinuz” –initrd=”/boot/upgrade/initrd.img” –args=”preupgrade repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade stage2=hd:UUID=8c2458eb-9a93-48f8-8abc-0c1c0b356d97:/boot/upgrade/install.img ks=hd:UUID=8c2458eb-9a93-48f8-8abc-0c1c0b356d97:/boot/upgrade/ks.cfg” –config-file=/boot/grub/grub.conf

You will have to replace the UUID value with the particular values of the partitions of your system that contain the /boot and /var directories. In my case the same partition contains the /boot and /var directories, so my repo argument is set to “hd:: …”, but you can put the UUID of your partition containing the /var directory between the colons “::” if that is different than the one containing your /boot directory. You can look in your /etc/fstab file for this, or use a command like:

# /lib/udev/vol_id /dev/sda1

By: Lin Goodwin

Lin Goodwin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:50:18 +0000

Saved me a lot of head aches. Was looking for cd/dvd upgrade and here is a scripting method. Thanks

By: marijuana5119

marijuana5119 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:45:52 +0000

hi…
im new user to fedora or any linux version…i installed fedora core 11…after installation…i found that my network connection shown not connected even though i plug in the network cable…may i know how to enable the connection???
can anyone help me??

By: DC

DC — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:39:28 +0000

I have exactly the same problem with Shanyar . I think it has something to do with yum. I have this running /usr/bin/python/ / usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yum and if I try yum clean all I get a db error.

By: Dave Miller

Dave Miller — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:33:29 +0000

I have Fedora on an external (USB) hard drive for use primarily with my laptop. The first part of the updates process (determine and download the files needed for the update) went off just fine. The reboot to the update kernel and the actual install was a problem.

It seems the preupdate program decided to update the grub.conf on the external drive; not the grub.conf on the laptop’s internal hard disk hat actually controls how my laptop boots. Once I figured this out I tried just copying the grub.conf entry from the external disk to the internal drive but I got a succession of “Error 15: File not found” errors. The grubby command to add the new entry to the wrong grub.conf looked like:

/sbin/grubby –title=”Upgrade to Fedora 11 (Leonidas)” –remove-kernel=”/boot/upgrade/vmlinuz” –add-kernel=”/boot/upgrade/vmlinuz” –initrd=”/boot/upgrade/initrd.img” –args=”preupgrade repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade stage2=hd:UUID=4e0c941c-69ef-42f6-afa2-107c558fead6:/upgrade/install.img ks=hd:UUID=4e0c941c-69ef-42f6-afa2-107c558fead6:/upgrade/ks.cfg”

The grub entry I finally ended up with that worked was:

title Upgrade to Fedora 11 (Leonidas)
kernel /vmlinuz preupgrade repo=hd:232029fe-c524-47b4-a5d6-d45c0ce7e56b:/var/cache/yum/preupgrade stage2=hd:UUID=4e0c941c-69ef-42f6-afa2-107c558fead6:/install.img ks=hd:UUID=4e0c941c-69ef-42f6-afa2-107c558fead6:/ks.cfg root=UUID=232029fe-c524-47b4-a5d6-d45c0ce7e56b
root (hd1,0)
initrd /initrd.img

This was after I had moved the upgrade boot files into /boot to see if them being in a subdirectory was what was causing the problem (it wasn’t). The key turned out to be making sure I had the UUID of the correct partition as part of the file specification for each file. I’m guessing the the problem was that “repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade” doesn’t specify the UUID of my partition that holds /var.

The other changes I made to the grub.conf entry and boot setup (moving the files out of the upgrade subdirectory, adding both a root= specification to the kernel line in grub.conf and adding a root line to the entry) probably weren’t necessary. Unfortunately, now that my laptop’s FC-10 installation has been upgraded to FC-11, I don’t have a way to test backing out these changes.

Cheers,
Dave

BTW, I found the easiest way to get the UUID for the partitions I needed was to just look in /etc/fstab since this is how they’re mounted.

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:31:21 +0000

vty = terminal or console without GUI. Type init 3 at shell prompt to shutdown GUI.

By: alireza sadeh

alireza sadeh — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:47:28 +0000

hi everyone
what is vty or screen session?how can i access that?thanks in advance