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..

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need some more..

yum remove yelp -y

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