upgrading from F7 to F8

Tomasz Torcz tomek at crocom.com.pl
Thu Nov 8 14:37:58 UTC 2007


Dnia 08-11-2007, Cz o godzinie 09:29 -0500, Mark C. Allman napisał(a):
> On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 15:19 +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> > Dnia 08-11-2007, Cz o godzinie 15:50 +0200, Antti J. Huhtala napisał(a):
> > > ke, 2007-11-07 kello 23:17:05 -0600, Jimmy Bradley kirjoitti:
> > > 
> > > >       Does anyone know if it will be possible to upgrade from F7 to F8,
> > > > rather than do a whole new install?
> > > > 
> > > It may be. However, in trying to upgrade my x86_64 system from F7 to F8
> > > the installer got stuck in "Checking dependencies in packages selected
> > > to be installed" when it was approx. 25% through checking. I tried also
> > > text installation and even us-en installation instead of localized
> > > version (fi) to no avail. It got stuck in the same place every time.
> > > 
> > 
> > Welcome to the club :/
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=366641
> > 
> 
> I haven't tried it yet (F7 -> F8), but I remember on one of my systems
> it required something like several hours to resolve dependencies.  It
> eventually worked.  I thought it was hung up also, but it was late and I
> just decided to deal with it in the morning.  I woke up to it busily
> upgrading.

 I left my system for over 16 hours and it didn't move a bit. And this
is pretty speedy AMD Opteron 150 (2.4 GHz). But I will take your advice
and try again over the weekend. Two and a half day should be enough.


-- 
Tomasz Torcz




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