Problem when upgrading from F12 to F13

[Jim]

  On 08/20/2010 02:38 PM, Jon Ingason wrote:
> 2010-08-20 19:42, Jon Ingason skrev:
>> 2010-08-20 18:28, Jim skrev:
>>>      On 08/20/2010 11:30 AM, Jon Ingason wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Have to computer where I run Fedora. One is i686 (Pentium III
>>>> (Coppermine) 800 MHz), 512 Mbytes memory and the other one is x86_64
>>>> (AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ 1800 MHz,  2 Gbytes
>>>> memory. I had installed F12 on both of them. The /boot (ext4) is 200
>>>> Mbytes on both computer. I decided to do preupgrade on both (F12 ->
>>>> F13). Since the /boot is only 200 Mbytes I followed the instructions
>>>> published on Fedora wiki "How to use PreUpgrade"
>>>> (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PreUpgrade).
>>>>
>>>> The preupgrade of the i686 went fine. It only did do the first step so
>>>> when I rebooted the computer I only needed to configure the network as
>>>> stated in the wiki. When I tried to preupgrade the x86_64 using same
>>>> method as with the i686 the /boot got full and the preupgrade program
>>>> crashed.
>>>>
>>>> I have goggled and not found this problem. Have other same problem with
>>>> x86_64 or is there other way to do this without resizing /boot?
>>>>
>>>> PS The rest of the disk is LVM on both computers.
>>> I have found the easiest way to upgrade is get the latest
>>> "Fedora-release" and "Fedora-release-notes" from the F13 mirrors and
>>> "rpm -Uvh" both rpm's into F12 , then do a "yum clean all" and lastly
>>> "yum upgrade" from command line .
>>>
>>> It will replace all your F12 rpm's with F13 rpm's and then you Reboot
>>> your computer into a F13 kernel, and the LAST thing you have to do is "
>>> rpm -qa | grep kernel"  that will display all the F12 kernels left
>>> behind, you do a "yum remove"  any kernels left behind.  If I use the
>>> command line and Copy and Paste those old F12 kernels  at "yum remove"
>>> it makes it easier.
>>>
>>> And very lastly you got a Brand Spanking new F13 to boot from.
>>>
>>> I have done a lot of F12>    F13 boxes that way without any problems.
>>>
>>> Be sure to leave out all the quotes I put in this email.
>> Thanks, I will try this.
>>
> OK, I have done "yum upgrade" but after down load of all packages I get
> transacton error:
>
>     file /lib64/libdb-4.7.so from install of
> compat-db47-4.7.25-15.fc13.x86_64 conflicts with file from package
> db4-4.7.25-13.fc12.x86_64
>     file /usr/lib64/nautilus-sendto/plugins/libnstbluetooth.so from
> install of gnome-bluetooth-2.30.0-1.fc13.x86_64 conflicts with file from
> package nautilus-sendto-2.28.2-2.fc12.x86_64
>
> And I am not sure what I should do now. Any comments?
>
You install the two Fedora-release rpm's and you do "yum clean all" 
before doing upgrade ?