F16->F17 preupgrade (Re: F17 Beta to slip by an additional week.)

[Richard Vickery]

I get a kernel panic when I boot up into the preupgrade. It seems like this
could be the lack of hard drive space left. does this sound accurate?

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Pavel Alexeev <forum at hubbitus.com.ru>wrote:

>  29.04.2012 15:00, Ian Malone wrote:
>
> On 29 April 2012 01:05, Richard Vickery <richard.vickeryrv at gmail.com> <richard.vickeryrv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>  On 2012-04-26 10:50 AM, "Michał Piotrowski" <mkkp4x4 at gmail.com> <mkkp4x4 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
> W dniu 9 kwietnia 2012 17:46 użytkownik Michał Piotrowski<mkkp4x4 at gmail.com> <mkkp4x4 at gmail.com> napisał:
>
>  Hi,
>
>     Is it possible to upgrade now from F16 to F17 with preupgrade?
>
>
>
>  Has anyone tried to preupgrade from F16 to F17? Are there any problems
> related to UsrMove (or anything else)?
>
>   For those of us who have let our command-line skills wane slightly, what is
> the command for preupgrade, if this is how it is accomplished?
>
>
>  # yum install preupgrade
> $ preupgrade
>
> However, one pre-upgrade bug that may prevent you installing and is
> not on the blockers list:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=813973
> "Preupgrade fails to build proper squashfs.img URL on boot with small
> boot partitions"
> Not apparent till you've downloaded all packages and rebooted into the
> installer.
>
>  Yes, I also seen it yesterday in update process.
> Also it does not try other mirrors if current not in sync (and ignore
> fastestmirror yum plugin option) and what I think more critical it crashes
> in i18n environment:
> Bugs filled by me yesterday:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?emailreporter2=1&emailtype2=exact&emailreporter1=1&emailtype1=exact&query_format=advanced&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=MODIFIED&bug_status=ON_DEV&bug_status=ON_QA&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=RELEASE_PENDING&bug_status=POST&email2=pahan%40hubbitus.info&email1=pahan%40hubbitus.info&component=preupgrade&product=Fedora
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