You might be sitting there on your Fedora 7 or 8 setup, reading the Fedora 9 release notes drooling all over yourself wishing it was on your machine. Well why not upgrade to it without the ISO download using PreUpgrade?
You can get preupgrade using yum by doing this as root:
yum –enablerepo=updates-testing preupgrade
However the version with Fedora 9 upgrades enabled is not yet in the repositories so if you can’t wait for it to get pushed out you can do the following:
for Fedora 8:
rpm -Uvh http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/preupgrade/0.9.3/3.fc8/noarch/preupgrade-0.9.3-3.fc8.noarch.rpm
For Fedora 7:
rpm -Uvh http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/preupgrade/0.9.3/3.fc7/noarch/preupgrade-0.9.3-3.fc7.noarch.rpm
Then run preupgrade like so:
preupgrade
Follow the instructions and voila you have all the drool worthy Fedora 9 goodness on your very own machine. All without the downloading of an ISO which is filled with rpms you probably will never use, no going through the same installer a second time and keeping your settings.
*edit*
Updated the version of preupgrade as the previous version had a bug that would hang it at the final stage.
shaileshn said,
May 16, 2008 at 07:38
Hey thanks, I did try the preupgrade option and was pleasantly surprised. You do need to update the packages to 0.9.3-3 as the ones you have on ur post have a bug which makes things stop at the last step.
Have posted my experience at
http://shailesh-techtravels.blogspot.com/
davidnielsen said,
May 16, 2008 at 18:25
Thank you, I corrected the information (and recovered your comment from the spam folder where akismet mistakenly had placed you)
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