PreUpgrade - no distros available

[Michael Wiktowy]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 May 2008 05:54:13 pm Chris Bredesen wrote:
>  > I've installed preupgrade from Koji, v0.9.3.  When I run it, I see no
>  > distros in the dropdown.  When I check the untested/unstable box, I get
>  > only Rawhide.  Should this be functional yet?
>  >
>  > I'm on F8 trying to get to F9.
>  >
>  > -CB
>
>  I'm having the same problem - trying to u/g F7 to F9. Is there a selective
>  upgrade option? for specific packages? I didn't see that in the UI.

Link to the latest one for those looking:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/pending/preupgrade-0.9.3-3.fc8

This adds the entry for F9.

I just went through the process and it wasn't flawless. Be aware that
there seems to be a missing "/" in the grub entry that it creates so
you have to go in and edit it for it to work ... at least I did.

The wrong line is:
kernel /boot/upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade lang=en_US.UTF-8 keymap=us
stage2=hd:sda2:boot/upgrade/stage2.img
method=http://www.muug.mb.ca/pub/distro/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/i386/os

It should be:
kernel /boot/upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade lang=en_US.UTF-8 keymap=us
stage2=hd:sda2:/boot/upgrade/stage2.img
method=http://www.muug.mb.ca/pub/distro/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/i386/os

Leave the mirror that it puts in. I edited mine and I think it led to
some issues that cause huge delays in the finalization of the upgrade.

But in the end I rebooted, things are working OK and  I am typing this
in F9 with the *much* speedier Firefox.

/Mike