upgrade fedora 7 to fedora 8 using DVD

hhmm…

required download from website or torrent .. Fedora-8-i386-DVD.iso

mkdir -p /media/fedora

mount -o loop Fedora-8-i386-DVD.iso /media/fedora

get to latest update of fc7

yum update -y

clean all cache..

yum clean all

d

get fedora 8 release..

rpm -Uvh /media/fedora/fedora-release-8-3.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh /media/fedora/fedora-release-notes-8.0.0-3.noarch.rpm

tweak yum.repos.d

insert this into /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo

[fedora-dvd]
name=Fedora DVD
baseurl=file:///media/fedora
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

now for the real..

yum upgrade --disablerepo \\* --enablerepo fedora-dvd

but not that smooth..

i got this..

weird-yelp.PNG

need some more..

yum remove yelp -y

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3 Responses

  1. ahstod says:

    going ubuntu? you’ll still need centos5 VM to compile centos binary and RPMs …

    Reply
  2. `narumi says:

    welcome to ubuntu world heh2..

    Reply
  3. namran says:

    Is not going ubuntu..

    the above post is due to ‘silly’ mistake of pressing ‘next’..

    next time not to trust default
    setting of distro installation playing with
    ‘real’ partition..

    managed to recover some partition with

    http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

    .. my “/home” is still missing ,though..
    collecting bit by bit at the moment..
    hahaha..

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