Comments on: Werewolf (Fedora 8) Upgrade in 3 Easy Steps Using yum

By: Centos Gone

Centos Gone — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:56:31 +0000

this also works to convert from Centos! Thanks for the tip!

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:08:08 +0000

“#yum clean all” may be required after installing fedora-release to get yum to realize you want the packages for the new release, otherwise it may show you updates for 7 instead.

By: fedorax

fedorax — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:24:34 +0000

[bates@bates ~]$ uname -r
2.6.23.1-49.fc8
[bates@bates ~]$ cat /etc/*release
Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)
Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)
Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)
[bates@bates ~]$

Finally I’m done with no errors.
Thanx again for the usefull simple guide!

By: fedorax

fedorax — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:54:36 +0000

(1085/1215): openoffice.o 100% |=========================| 1.4 MB 03:39 (1086/1215): mesa-libGLU- 100% |=========================| 203 kB 00:35 (1087/1215): xmms-sid-0.8 100% |=========================| 120 kB 00:32 (1088/1215): gcc-4.1.2-33 100% |=========================| 5.2 MB 14:07 (1089/1215): libxcb-1.0-3 100% |=========================| 117 kB 00:11 (1090/1215): audit-libs-1 100% |=========================| 61 kB 00:04 (1091/1215): nfs-utils-li 100% |=========================| 59 kB 00:16 (1092/1215): libgail-gnom 100% |=========================| 26 kB 00:05 (1093/1215): directfb-1.0 100% |=========================| 1.0 MB 02:42 (1094/1215): akode-pulsea 100% |=========================| 7.8 kB 00:00 (1095/1215): psacct-6.3.2 100% |=========================| 59 kB 00:04 (1096/1215): mono-data-1. 100% |=========================| 1.8 MB 01:11 (1097/1215): hal-libs-0.5 100% |=========================| 60 kB 00:11 (1098/1215): kdenetwork-3 100% |=========================| 10 MB 09:12 (1099/1215): perl-IO-Sock 100% |=========================| 50 kB 00:10 The exitement awaiting..... I'll follow up later... since the process still going on.. just about 115 package to go!! Very simple yet works step to upgrading from f7 > f8.

By: Janschan

Janschan — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:07:51 +0000

Herlo,
Thanks for your recommendation, but I have no DVD burners.
I just down a fedora 8 DVD iso file now.

and as Nils said, there’s a bug in upgrade fedora 7 to fedora 8 with DVD.

thanks.

By: herlo

herlo — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:57:34 +0000

Janschan,

yes, you can upgrade from the DVD using yum. However, I’d recommend just sticking the DVD in and rebooting your machine. Choose upgrade and you’ll be off to the races. Be forewarned that as with any upgrade, it is best to backup your data.

Cheers,

Herlo

By: janschan

janschan — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 01:29:43 +0000

“Total download size: 1.0 G”?!
It’s too big for my network!
It will cost 2-3 days!
So, can I upgrade my os in DVD ISO?

first, mount it to somewhere.
second, yum update *.rpm from it.

can?

Thanks!

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:00:53 +0000

Thanks Herlo. Actually I followed your directions to the letter and did switch to root before attempting to edit the file. Therefore, I must be missing something in vim - I’m used to using pico. Thanks for your suggestion.

By: herlo

herlo — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:54:22 +0000

Jim,

As a recommendation, make sure you are root when you edit these files. Another thought might be the editor you are using. Personally, I dig vim as my favorite editor, but it requires a learning curve to get started. Maybe gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo would be more your style.

Another thought would be to perform the alternate step 1 I recently discovered myself.

Cheers,

Herlo

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:10:27 +0000

I’m using Parallels via OSX to run Fedora, and although I have no trouble bringing up the fedora.repo file, I can’t seem to edit it. The cursor just moves around and I can’t type anything or delete anything. It’s acting like it’s a read only file. Is this because of the virtualization involved, or am I missing something much more basic here? Thanks.