preupgrade problem

Tim Lauridsen tim.lauridsen at googlemail.com
Tue Nov 25 17:59:49 UTC 2008


Jim wrote:
> Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
>> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>>>> preupgrade-0.9.9-1.fc9
>>>> This should work, but please choose Fedora 10 Preview. Beta is older..
>>>>     
>>>
>>> I can't find preupgrade at this version running the following comand:
>>>
>>> [root at desktop ~]# yum --enablerepo "updates-testing,
>>> updates-testing-newkey" install preupgrade
>>> Loaded plugins: allowdowngrade, refresh-packagekit
>>> rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
>>>                                                                   |
>>> 2.7 kB     00:00
>>> 7a13d6e3407fdc4234c797f6d249ac66a7625923-primary.sqlite.bz2
>>>                                                                   |
>>> 84 kB     00:01
>>> fedora
>>>                                                                   |
>>> 2.4 kB     00:00
>>> primary.sqlite.bz2
>>>                                                                   |
>>> 7.6 MB     00:38
>>> rpmfusion-free-updates
>>>                                                                   |
>>> 2.7 kB     00:00
>>> 2359cb7b4ccd3d496cebe151d5f0c8e2a7873212-primary.sqlite.bz2
>>>                                                                   |
>>> 308 kB     00:05
>>> rpmfusion-free
>>>                                                                   |
>>> 951 B     00:00
>>> primary.xml.gz
>>>                                                                   |
>>> 201 B     00:00
>>> adobe-linux-i386
>>>                                                                   |
>>> 951 B     00:00
>>> primary.xml.gz
>>>                                                                   |
>>> 10 kB     00:00
>>> adobe-linux-i386                                               17/17
>>> updates-newkey
>>>                                                                   |
>>> 2.3 kB     00:00
>>> primary.sqlite.bz2
>>>                                                                   |
>>> 4.1 MB     00:20
>>> fusion
>>>                                                                   |
>>> 1.9 kB     00:00
>>> primary.sqlite.bz2
>>>                                                                   |
>>> 28 kB     00:00
>>> rpmfusion-nonfree
>>>                                                                   |
>>> 951 B     00:00
>>> primary.xml.gz
>>>                                                                   |
>>> 201 B     00:00
>>> updates
>>>                                                                   |
>>> 2.6 kB     00:00
>>> primary.sqlite.bz2
>>>                                                                   |
>>> 11 kB     00:00
>>> Setting up Install Process
>>> Parsing package install arguments
>>> Package preupgrade-0.9.3-3.fc9.noarch already installed and latest 
>>> version
>>> Nothing to do
>>>
>>> What's wrong here?
>>>
>>>   
>> Koji always has the latest packages :) ...
>>
>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=6045
>>
>> JBG
> FC8/KDE
> I tried preupgrade to FC9 from FC8 but after I run preupgrade and went 
> to reboot it said that it couldn't find images. I want to do the 
> preupgrade on FC10 , tomorrow.
> Does FC9, FC10 require a /boot partition ?
> I have the following partitions ;
> 
> sda1   /      ext3
> sda2   /home    ext3
> sda3   swap
> 

if you have your / on a real partition, then you dont need a separate 
/boot partition.
If you have your / on LVM partition, then you need a separate /boot 
partition.

Tim




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