Preupgrade with multiboot: can't find right target

Kam Leo kam.leo at gmail.com
Sat Nov 13 01:47:07 UTC 2010


On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:33 PM, John Pilkington <J.Pilk at tesco.net> wrote:

> On 12/11/10 22:11, Rick Stevens wrote:
>
> <snip>
> >
> > I don't think a preupgrade which skips three releases (10->14) is
> > supported.  Single upgrades (10->11, 11->12, 12->13, 13->14) generally
> > work, but skipping intermediate stages is quite problematic.  There's
> > a lot of stuff that changed significantly between F10 and F14.
>
> Thanks for the quick reply, Nick.  That did seem a likely explanation
> but I thought the wiki said it could (or perhaps might) be done.  If no
> other ideas come up I'll try f10 to f12 as a first step - before f12
> goes EOL.
>
>
Pre-upgrade is not all that perfected in Fedora land. Give the F14 physical
media a try. It's faster than doing 3 upgrades  If you have installed a
large number of packages you may want to use the netinst CD.


> John P
>
>
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