[olug] upgrading to Fedora 21 - smoothest one in a while

[Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T]

instead of bg, screen could be an even better friend.

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Lou Duchez <lou at paprikash.com> wrote:
>
> So it's Fedora upgrade time again; I've upgraded a half dozen servers
> without any hitches.  The process I've been following:
>
> 1) "yum update" to make sure you're up to date on your Fedora 20.
>
> 2) "package-cleanup --leaves" and "package-cleanup --orphans" to find any
> packages that yum doesn't quite know what to do with.  Then run "yum remove
> ________" to get rid of all those packages.
>
> 3) "yum clean all"
>
> 4) "yum --releasever=21 distro-sync"*
>
> 5) This is a new wrinkle: Fedora 21 now comes in three basic products,
> "workstation", "cloud", and "server".  So you are now to run one of the
> four following commands to pick which of the three products you want:
>
>     yum install system-release-workstation
>     yum install system-release-cloud
>     yum install system-release-server
>     yum install system-release-nonproduct
>
>     I went with "nonproduct".
>
> 6) Figure out which device you boot from, by running this command:
>
>     df | grep "/boot$" | cut -f 1 -d " "
>
>     It will probably return something like "/dev/sda1", which is actually
> a partition and not a device.  But in this case, the device is "/dev/sda".
>
> 7) Run "grub2-install BOOTDEVICE" (which would be the device from the
> previous step)
>
> 8) Reboot!  If your experience is anything like mine, your server will
> come right up without any problems.
>
>
> *: One thing I like to do is, after yum has downloaded all the version 21
> files it needs and has started installing them, I hit Ctrl-Z and then run
> "bg" to make yum run in the background.  That way, even if my SSH session
> gets disconnected, there's still a pretty good chance that yum can and will
> run to completion, rather than screeching to a halt halfway through.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> OLUG mailing list
> OLUG at olug.org
> https://lists.olug.org/mailman/listinfo/olug
>


-- 
Best,

Jeff Hinrichs
402.218.1473