[olug] upgrade from Fedora 17 to Fedora 18

[Sam Flint]

If only i had that yesterday! had to do a reinstall...


On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Lou Duchez <lou at paprikash.com> wrote:

> So last time a new Fedora came out (Fedora 17), I posted my upgrade
> instructions, which were kind of hairy.  That's because it was a Very
> Special Upgrade, where they were merging the /bin, /sbin, and /lib
> directories with /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, and /usr/lib respectively.  So it
> required a fair amount of hand-holding.
>
> But lest you get the wrong idea about Fedora, the upgrade from Fedora 17
> to 18 is pretty standard, and here's what it consists of:
>
> 1) yum update
>
>     A preventative measure, because it's best to make sure your system
> isn't all outdated and weird.
>
> 2) yum clean all
>
>     Another preventative measure, to make sure yum isn't all full of cruft.
>
> 3) rpm --import https://fedoraproject.org/**static/DE7F38BD.txt<https://fedoraproject.org/static/DE7F38BD.txt>
>
>     You need a new key to process the new RPMs.
>
> 4) yum --releasever=18 --disableplugin=presto distro-sync
>
>     This is what does the updating.
>
> 5) rpm --rebuilddb
>
>     This is the only "special" step this time around.  There's a change to
> the yum database structure, so you have to rebuild the yum database after
> upgrading your system.
>
> 6) yum repolist
>
>     This step is just to confirm that you're on the Fedora 18 repositories
> now.
>
> 7) df -h | grep /boot
>
>     This is just to determine whether your boot device is /dev/sda,
> /dev/sdb, or what.  You'll need that for ...
>
> 8) /sbin/grub2-install /dev/[device]
>
>     This installs the new boot loader.  What you need to specify here is
> the device (/sda), not the partition (/sda1).
>
> 9) reboot
>
>     Say a small prayer and reboot.  It'll almost certainly reboot just
> fine; I did six servers yesterday and they all came back up.
>
>
>
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