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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/20/2013 12:40 PM, Reindl Harald
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Am 20.02.2013 18:35, schrieb Tod Thomas:
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<pre wrap="">I just completed upgrading a FC14 virtual machine running under virtual box and it went pretty well. Now I am
trying to do the same upgrade only on a FC15 standalone machine to FC16. It looks like it can't find any of the
FC15 repos which is odd since FC14 went so well. Should I expect this to work or is the FC15 release just too
old?
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F16 is EOL now
F15 and F14 are EOL since a very long time
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<pre wrap="">Why did the FC14 upgrade go so well?
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luck by selected a mirror which not deleted the files
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<tt>As it turns out there are a lot of mirrors that have quite an
extensive inventory of Fedora releases. The trick is to find one
and:<br>
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- login as root<br>
- download the current releases.txt</tt>
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/releases.txt">http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/releases.txt</a>)<br>
- hack it for the version you want to upgrade to, removing all
others<br>
- comment out both the mirrorlist and installmirrorlist lines<br>
- insert baseurl and installurl lines pointing them to your
mirror repo<br>
- run preupgrade (not preupgrad-cli)<br>
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Here's my uncommented fc15->fc16 release.txt:<br>
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[Fedora 16 (Verne)]<br>
stable=True<br>
preupgrade-ok=True<br>
version=16<br>
baseurl=<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/$basearch/os/">http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/$basearch/os/</a><br>
installurl=<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/$basearch/os/">http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/fedora/linux/releases/16/Fedora/$basearch/os/</a><br>
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Both my machines are rolled by hand. I upgraded from fc14 on one
machine and fc15 on another to fc16 without a problem. It seems
that preupgrade-cli doesn't read the releases.txt from the current
directory (in my case root), I'm not sure that's consistent or an
error on my part but running preupgrade worked fine. I was kind of
concerned reading all the problems with preupgrade but everything
went without a problem. I'll be trying fc16->fc17 if I can this
weekend.<br>
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Oh, and something reactived my Caps Lock key along the way. Grrr :)<br>
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- Tod<br>
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