[Novalug] Getting Fedora 11 to work -- Upgrading Fedora hosts difficult
Nick Danger
nick@hackermonkey.com
Sun Oct 25 19:06:30 EDT 2009
Where was that "Can't we all just get along" message? I've never had
issues upgrading Fedora or RHEL/CentOS, but then you probably don't care
as I am not a "professional".
Paul D. Bain wrote:
> American Dave wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:16:47AM -0500, Beartooth wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, Charles M Howe wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is a new thread. I wrote one message and got a few
>>>> replies, but I didn't reply to any of them. [....]
>>>> Huge embarrassment. While I have no recollection of choosing
>>>> one on Oct 10, I must have. If anybody has a suggestion, please
>>>> say. But I expect to have to reinstall.[....]
>>> Remember F12 is due out next month. At that point -- or a
>>> few days later to let the bandwidth diminish -- you should be
>>> able to do a pre-upgrade, let it complete, and reboot at your
>>> convenience -- thus keeping all your tweaks.
>> Fedora's just not good at upgrading. 10 -> 11 didn't go super well for
>> me, and even the docs suggest re-imaging if it's an option.
>>
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
>>
>> -A. Dave
>
> Hell, yes, American Dave, you got that right. And I amazed that some of
> the Linux "professionals" on this list _still_ do not understand this
> simple fact. I wonder whether these "professionals" have _ever_ actually
> attempted to upgrade a Fedora host, as they claim to have done.
>
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