Fedora 2 upgrade

Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net
Mon May 24 13:51:44 EDT 2004


It means you didn't get fully upgraded for some reason. I don't believe there's a guarantee that this upgrade path works.

cris writes:
> I did all of the steps recommended to upgrade to Fedora 2, but when I do the
> cat /etc/fedora-release, it tells me that I have fedora core 1 (yarrow).  Is
> that normal?
> Cheers,
> Cris
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 9:51 PM
> Subject: Re: Fedora 2 install
> 
> 
> > yum upgrade
> >
> > will upgrade the entire system. If it works correctly it will take you
> from FC1 to FC2.
> >
> > yum update
> >
> > would keep you in FC1 by only updating to newer versions within that
> release.
> >
> > You can tell, after yum completes, with:
> >
> > cat /etc/fedora-release
> >
> > Stephen Clower writes:
> > > Hi Janina,
> > >   I'll certainly give that a try. Will this only upgrade the currently
> installed server packages, or is there a way to get the whole shabang with
> the yum command?
> > >
> > >
> > > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
> > >
> > > On 5/23/2004 at 4:57 PM Janina Sajka wrote:
> > >
> > > >Well, if you have a broadband connection to the net, you might want to
> > > >reconfigure /etc/yum.conf for FC2 and do:
> > > >
> > > >yum upgrade
> > > >
> > > >That might get you there. Be sure to exclude the kernel from the
> upgrade
> > > >though. You'll want to put that one in by hand to get Speakup support.
> > > >
> > > >Example exclude:
> > > >
> > > >exclude=kernel kernel-doc kernel-source kernel-smp *debuginfo*
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >Stephen Clower writes:
> > > >> Hi Janina,
> > > >>
> > > >> I didn't think partition resizing would have made a difference, but I
> > > >wanted to make sure I tried absolutely everything, including a fresh
> > > >partitioning in case the installation script looked for a partition
> number
> > > >that didn't exist. Yes, the MD5sums showed that my CD-rom's were
> correct.
> > > >Fedora Core 1 did install, and in both instances I was using the
> Speakup
> > > >modified Iso images. I guess I could always just install a whole lot of
> > > >RPM packages failing a solution.
> > > >> Stephen Clower, that guy from the south.
> > > >> You can reach me by any of the following:
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> > > >>
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> >
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

		Chair, Accessibility Workgroup
	Free Standards Group (FSG)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175




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