Fedora 13 End of Life - STILL can't update to F15

[Suvayu Ali]

Hello Philip,

On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:31:52 +1100
Philip Rhoades <phil at pricom.com.au> wrote:

> suvayu,
> 
> 
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:21:18 -0700, suvayu ali wrote:
> > Hi Philip,
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Philip Rhoades
> > <phil at pricom.com.au> wrote:
> >> People,
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:32:28 -0400, Jared K. Smith wrote:
> >>>
> >>> As of today (24 June 2011), Fedora 13 has reached its end of life 
> >>> for
> >>> updates and support. No further updates, including security 
> >>> updates,
> >>> will be available for Fedora 13. A previous reminder was sent on 
> >>> June
> >>> 12th [0].
> >>
> >>
> >> No-one has been able to offer a solution to the boot problem for
> >> my Gateway
> >> LT30 netbook - I am still getting similar problems to the ones I
> >> got after
> >> the Beta and RCs XFCE Live CD version installs to HD - so I am 
> >> reposting in
> >> the hope that someone will see it this time who has a solution.
> >>
> >
> > Why don't you try preupgrade or yum upgrade? I upgraded from F13 to
> > F15 without any problems. If you have more than 640 MB of RAM,
> > either should work. If you have less RAM, yum upgrade is your
> > option.
> >
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Preupgrade
> 
> 
> If it also failed, I would no usable partition (I am installing to a 
> different partition).
> 

I guess in that case you are left with few other options. You can do a
text mode installation. Did you try that? AFAIR, in earlier versions of
Fedora you could select this option by passing "linux text" as an
argument when booting the install medium. Not entirely sure its still
available though. Note that it has limited partitioning abilities
compared to the full feature installer.

The final but probably the most robust option would be to write a
kickstart file and do a network based install. This might seem
daunting, but it is rather easy to get a basic customised kickstart if
you start from the kickstart files used by the Fedora live CDs.

<http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=spin-kickstarts.git;a=tree>

> >
> > $ lspci | grep -i vga
> 
> 
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation System
> Controller Hub (SCH Poulsbo) Graphics Controller (rev 07)
> 

That is one of those dreaded poulsbo chipsets! I am not sure whether
they are unsupported or not. Since it works with F13, this might be a
regression bug. I would say its worth filing a report on bugzilla.

> (It works fine with F13).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Phil.

I hope the pointers above will get you started. GL.

-- 
Suvayu

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