preupgrade problem

Jim mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Tue Nov 25 18:13:18 UTC 2008


Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> Jim wrote:
>> Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
>>> Bruno Medeiros wrote:
>>>>> preupgrade-0.9.9-1.fc9
>>>>> This should work, but please choose Fedora 10 Preview. Beta is 
>>>>> older..
>>>>>     
>>>>
>>>> I can't find preupgrade at this version running the following comand:
>>>>
>>>> [root at desktop ~]# yum --enablerepo "updates-testing,
>>>> updates-testing-newkey" install preupgrade
>>>> Loaded plugins: allowdowngrade, refresh-packagekit
>>>> rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
>>>>                                                                   |
>>>> 2.7 kB     00:00
>>>> 7a13d6e3407fdc4234c797f6d249ac66a7625923-primary.sqlite.bz2
>>>>                                                                   |
>>>> 84 kB     00:01
>>>> fedora
>>>>                                                                   |
>>>> 2.4 kB     00:00
>>>> primary.sqlite.bz2
>>>>                                                                   |
>>>> 7.6 MB     00:38
>>>> rpmfusion-free-updates
>>>>                                                                   |
>>>> 2.7 kB     00:00
>>>> 2359cb7b4ccd3d496cebe151d5f0c8e2a7873212-primary.sqlite.bz2
>>>>                                                                   |
>>>> 308 kB     00:05
>>>> rpmfusion-free
>>>>                                                                   |
>>>> 951 B     00:00
>>>> primary.xml.gz
>>>>                                                                   |
>>>> 201 B     00:00
>>>> adobe-linux-i386
>>>>                                                                   |
>>>> 951 B     00:00
>>>> primary.xml.gz
>>>>                                                                   |
>>>> 10 kB     00:00
>>>> adobe-linux-i386                                               17/17
>>>> updates-newkey
>>>>                                                                   |
>>>> 2.3 kB     00:00
>>>> primary.sqlite.bz2
>>>>                                                                   |
>>>> 4.1 MB     00:20
>>>> fusion
>>>>                                                                   |
>>>> 1.9 kB     00:00
>>>> primary.sqlite.bz2
>>>>                                                                   |
>>>> 28 kB     00:00
>>>> rpmfusion-nonfree
>>>>                                                                   |
>>>> 951 B     00:00
>>>> primary.xml.gz
>>>>                                                                   |
>>>> 201 B     00:00
>>>> updates
>>>>                                                                   |
>>>> 2.6 kB     00:00
>>>> primary.sqlite.bz2
>>>>                                                                   |
>>>> 11 kB     00:00
>>>> Setting up Install Process
>>>> Parsing package install arguments
>>>> Package preupgrade-0.9.3-3.fc9.noarch already installed and latest 
>>>> version
>>>> Nothing to do
>>>>
>>>> What's wrong here?
>>>>
>>>>   
>>> Koji always has the latest packages :) ...
>>>
>>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=6045
>>>
>>> JBG
>> FC8/KDE
>> I tried preupgrade to FC9 from FC8 but after I run preupgrade and 
>> went to reboot it said that it couldn't find images. I want to do the 
>> preupgrade on FC10 , tomorrow.
>> Does FC9, FC10 require a /boot partition ?
>> I have the following partitions ;
>>
>> sda1   /      ext3
>> sda2   /home    ext3
>> sda3   swap
>>
>
> if you have your / on a real partition, then you dont need a separate 
> /boot partition.
> If you have your / on LVM partition, then you need a separate /boot 
> partition.
>
> Tim
>
I had my /boot on / but that didn't help.


sda1   /      ext3   # this where my /boot is
sda2   /home    ext3
sda3   swap




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