F8 -> F9 preupgrade

Zoltan Boszormenyi zboszor at freemail.hu
Wed May 14 12:57:53 UTC 2008


Klaasjan Brand írta:
> 2008/5/14 Zoltan Boszormenyi <zboszor at freemail.hu 
> <mailto:zboszor at freemail.hu>>:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I tried preupgrade without success, but at least it didn't destroy
>     my old installation. :-)
>
>     I started package downloads with preupgrade 0.9.3-1, then killed it
>     when 0.9.3-2 came out, upgraded and continued downloading.
>     Total download size was about 6.2 GB, I have many huge games
>     installed from Fedora 8 Everything. However, this version hung
>     at the last download phase, which was fixed by 0.9.3-3.
>
>
> I think it has something to do with preupgrade looking for a 
> ".treeinfo" file, which wasn't available on my mirror. I've fixed it 
> by pointing the preupgrade configuration to a mirrorsite that had the 
> treeinfo file.
>  
>
>
>     This version offered to reboot into upgrade finally, which I did.
>     It booted into anaconda upgrade, which detected my partitions
>     correctly.
>     The problem that made the upgrade unsuccessful was that Anaconda
>     doesn't pull the network settings from my old installation and I have
>     an ADSL connection with a dump ADSL modem, not a router.
>
>
> Does anaconda need an internet connection after preupgrade has 
> downloaded all the relevant files for your upgrade?

What else would the "Retrying package download" message indicate?
I have many packages installed from both Fedora Everything and Livna.

> Another small bug I've found which could be handled better is that the 
> kernel from Fedora 9 swapped my sda and sdb disks (I've got a SATA and 
> an IDE disk in my system), and anaconda isn't able to find the stage2 
> image (there's a prompt asking for the correct disk, but none of the 
> options work).
>
> Kj
>
>






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