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thanks to znx for the link,

 

[/url][url=http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading...x_with_yum.html]http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading...x_with_yum.html

 

cheers

 

anyweb

The basic idea is to have your system fully up-to-date. Then you should make sure that you are using the NEWEST kernel.

 

Therefore reboot your system to it if needed. Remove all the old kernels by checking:







 

Remove any old kernels for instance:







 

Once thats done, install the release file:







 

The do the upgrade.







 

If you get a failure. As long as the package isn't system critical, remove it.

 

If all goes well, then a reboot and you should have FC5.

if like me you have a mixture of one cpu (kernel) and two or more cpu's (kernel-smp) kernel's installed you'll have to do the following to remove the smp kernels

 







 

keep going until you only have the latest kernel installed in your list of kernels

 

cheers

anyweb

Cool! :)

 

Should this work for FC5 to FC6 when it is finished?

it should, and f.y.i i have used the above method to upgrade the [/url][url=https://www.linux-noob.com]https://www.linux-noob.com server (was FC4) to FC5 remotly via shh.

 

Quote:[anyweb@www ~]$ uname -aLinux www.linux-noob.com 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5smp #1 SMP Mon Sep 11 01:32:34 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[anyweb@www ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release

Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux)

[anyweb@www ~]$ uptime

10:14:00 up 3 min, 2 users, load average: 0.35, 0.54, 0.24

 

 

cheers

 

anyweb

Quote:Should this work for FC5 to FC6 when it is finished?

 

Indeed this method will be similar for all the upgrades of FC.

well it didn't go all that easy, had to ask for help on our irc channel (thanks jy/znx/flukex) and the following commands show what I did during the process to go from fcr5 to fcr6

 







 

when i get the chance i'll document the apparent mess above :P

 

but for those of you wanting a quick fix to yum update fedora core release 5 to fedora core release 6 try this

 







 

cheers

anyweb

ok i've now attempted to update this server from Fedora Core release 6 to Fedora 8

 

using the following commands







 

which has worked but not perfectly, see below

 

Quote:[root@www ~]# uname -aLinux www.linux-noob.com 2.6.20-1.2316.fc5smp #1 SMP Fri Apr 27 20:34:56 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[root@www ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)

 

so how do I fix the wrong kernel being loaded...

odd, but I had to run yum -y update again and this time it correclty applied the updates

 

Quote:[anyweb@www ~]$ uname -aLinux www.linux-noob.com 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 17:48:34 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[anyweb@www ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release

Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)