F8 -> F9 preupgrade

[Zoltan Boszormenyi]

Zoltan Boszormenyi írta:
> 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.
> 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.

typo, it's a "dumb" modem.

> The GRUB boot line for preupgrade is this:
>
> kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade lang=hu_HU.UTF-8 keymap=hu 
> stage2=hd:sda1:/upgrade/stage.img \
>    method=http://ftp.crc.dk/fedora/linux/releases=9/Fedora/x86_64/os
>
> Anaconda stalled at "Retrying package download" because the network
> connection isn't established. Replacing the method= parameter with
> method=file:///mnt/sysimage/var/cache/yum/anaconda-upgrade
> i.e. to point to the download directory gave me a Python exception
> in Anaconda.
>
> Best regards,
> Zoltán Böszörményi
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