Howto upgrade from FC1 to FC2?
Panu Matilainen
pmatilai at welho.com
Tue May 25 13:54:51 UTC 2004
On Tue, 25 May 2004, Georg Wittig wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to upgrade my workstation from FC1 to FC2. A clean install isn't
> an option to me because my FC1 is customized heavily (to re-customize a
> cleanly installed FC2 would take days for me), and I'm running apt-get
> with a lot of atrpms additions, too.
>
> The list archives didn't reveal much. So my question is, what's the
> simplest way to upgrade in my situation? I don't think upgrading via the
> official FC2 isos will work because of all the additional atrpms.
> Alternatively, I could install rpm, apt-get, and atrpms for FC2 on FC1
> first, and then "apt-get dist-upgrade". Or is this the wrong way?
Basically there are three options (not in any particular order as each
have their points):
a) Upgrade with anaconda, upgrade to FC2-apt from atrpms since that's the
repo you're using and run finish the upgrade with "apt-get dist-upgrade",
probably with -f to fix any broken dependencies automatically.
b) Remove all 3rd party packages, upgrade with anaconda and reinstall 3rd
party packages afterwards
c) Upgrade directly with apt (or yum). Have a look at the yum upgrade
guide for hints what you need to take care of manually in this case,
it largely applies to apt as well:
http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/misc/fc1-fc2-yum-hints.txt
AFAIK atrpms apt doesn't have the necessary magic to upgrade kernels
automatically so that's going to cause some extra steps (you'll probably
have to first install a new kernel manually). One important point here:
before you start the upgrade do
# echo 'RPM::Order "true";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf
That'll ensure that the packages get upgraded in the order RH intended
them to.
Last but certainly not least: if you are using LVM c) is NOT AN OPTION,
you'll need to use anaconda for the upgrade. Software RAID might be a
similar case but not sure about that.
- Panu -
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