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Upgrade to Fedora 13 from Fedora 12 with Preupgrade

Updated by JR on Oct 15, 2010 in Fedora, Install Guides, Linux | 3 comments

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I think the most easiest way to upgrade Fedora 12 to Fedora 13 is use Preupgrade, which download needed packages from the server and then just reboot to installer and after install boot the new system. This guide I use preupgrade-cli version, which works from command line. If you want use Preupgrade Graphical version then you can check this Howto upgrade Fedora 11 to Fedora 12 with Preupgrade guide, which works same way with Fedora 13 (Goddard). It’s important backup your important files before upgrading.

Upgrade to Fedora 13 from Fedora 12 with Preupgrade

1. Change to root

su -
## OR ##
sudo -i

2. Update Fedora 12 System packages

yum update

3. Install preupgrade (just make sure that we have it)

yum install preupgrade

4. Start preupgrade-cli (as root)

preupgrade-cli

Outputs:

Loaded plugins: blacklist, whiteout
No plugin match for: rpm-warm-cache
No plugin match for: remove-with-leaves
No plugin match for: auto-update-debuginfo
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
please give a release to try to pre-upgrade to
valid entries include:
   "Fedora 13 (Goddard)"
   "Rawhide"

5. Check That Fedora 13 (Goddard) Is Available and Then Run Preupgrade Again

preupgrade-cli "Fedora 13 (Goddard)"

Outputs:

Loaded plugins: blacklist, whiteout
No plugin match for: rpm-warm-cache
No plugin match for: remove-with-leaves
No plugin match for: auto-update-debuginfo
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
preupgrade-main (mirrorlist) 
  url: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-13&arch=$basearch
  now: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-13&arch=x86_64
preupgrade (mirrorlist) 
  url: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Fedora/$basearch/os
  now: http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Fedora/x86_64/os
preupgrade-adobe-linux-i386 (baseurl) 
  url: http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/
  now: http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/i386/
preupgrade-fedora (mirrorlist) 
  url: https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-13&arch=x86_64
  now: https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-13&arch=x86_64
preupgrade-updates (mirrorlist) 
  url: https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f13&arch=x86_64
  now: https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=updates-released-f13&arch=x86_64
Fetched treeinfo from http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Fedora/x86_64/os//.treeinfo
treeinfo timestamp: Thu May 13 04:01:37 2010
MEMORY                                                                                                | 1.2 kB     00:00     
/boot/upgrade/vmlinuz checksum OK
/boot/upgrade/initrd.img checksum OK
...
--> Running transaction check
---> Package ConsoleKit.x86_64 0:0.4.1-5.fc13 set to be updated
---> Package ConsoleKit-libs.x86_64 0:0.4.1-5.fc13 set to be updated
---> Package ConsoleKit-x11.x86_64 0:0.4.1-5.fc13 set to be updated
---> Package GConf2.i686 0:2.28.1-1.fc13 set to be updated
---> Package GConf2.x86_64 0:2.28.1-1.fc13 set to be updated
---> Package GConf2-gtk.x86_64 0:2.28.1-1.fc13 set to be updated
---> Package ImageMagick.x86_64 0:6.5.8.10-6.fc13 set to be updated
...
yelp.x86_64                              2.30.1-1.fc13          preupgrade-updates
yum.noarch                               3.2.27-4.fc13          preupgrade-fedora
yum-metadata-parser.x86_64               1.1.4-1.fc13           preupgrade-fedora
yum-presto.noarch                        0.6.2-1.fc13           preupgrade-fedora
yum-utils.noarch                         1.1.26-7.fc13          preupgrade-updates
zbar.x86_64                              0.10-2.fc13            preupgrade-fedora
zd1211-firmware.noarch                   1.4-4.fc13             preupgrade-fedora
zenity.x86_64                            2.30.0-1.fc13          preupgrade-fedora
zip.x86_64                               3.0-1.fc13             preupgrade-fedora
Total download size: 559.1MB
Download packages? 
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Setting up and reading Presto delta metadata
preupgrade-updates/prestodelta                                                                        | 5.9 kB     00:00     
preupgrade-fedora/prestodelta                                                                         |  419 B     00:00     
Processing delta metadata
Package(s) data still to download: 559 M
(1/1067): ConsoleKit-0.4.1-5.fc13.x86_64.rpm                                                          |  82 kB     00:00     
(2/1067): ConsoleKit-libs-0.4.1-5.fc13.x86_64.rpm 
...
(750/757): yum-3.2.27-4.fc13.noarch.rpm                                                               | 846 kB     00:00     
(751/757): yum-metadata-parser-1.1.4-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm                                                |  25 kB     00:00     
(752/757): yum-presto-0.6.2-1.fc13.noarch.rpm                                                         |  31 kB     00:00     
(753/757): yum-utils-1.1.26-7.fc13.noarch.rpm                                                         |  78 kB     00:00     
(754/757): zbar-0.10-2.fc13.x86_64.rpm                                                                | 124 kB     00:00     
(755/757): zd1211-firmware-1.4-4.fc13.noarch.rpm                                                      |  22 kB     00:00     
(756/757): zenity-2.30.0-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm                                                            | 2.7 MB     00:00     
(757/757): zip-3.0-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm                                                                  | 253 kB     00:00     
Generating metadata for preupgrade repo
preupgrade                                                                                            | 3.7 kB     00:00     
preupgrade/primary_db                                                                                 | 2.2 MB     00:00     
preupgrade/group                                                                                      | 1.6 MB     00:00     
1067/1067 - abrt-plugin-logger-1.1.0-1.fc13.x86_64.rpm                          
Saving Primary metadata
Saving file lists metadata
Saving other metadata
Generating sqlite DBs
Sqlite DBs complete
Preparing system to boot into installer
...
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
All finished. The upgrade will begin when you reboot.

6. When ready to begin upgrade then reboot (remember backups)

reboot

7. Starting Fedora 13 installation

8. Installing Fedora 13 packages

9. Fedora 13 desktop

Post-Upgrade Tasks

10. Remove unsupported packages

Get the list with following command:

package-cleanup --orphans

Then remove listed packages with following command:

yum remove package1 package2 ...

11. Check All .rpmsave and .rpmnew Files

You find these files with following command:

find / -print | egrep "rpmnew$|rpmsave$"

Depending on the differences between original and new files. You may need to manually merge new settings from new configuration files.

Troubleshooting

Not enough space on disk, check following tips

Free up space
Trick preupgrade into downloading the installer

What to do next?

Install nVidia Drivers on Fedora 13

Install Google Chrome Beta or Google Chrome Unstable on Fedora 13

Install Adobe Flash Player 10 on Fedora 13

Install Sun/Oracle Java (JDK, JRE) 6 on Fedora 13

Install Adobe AIR 1.5 and 2 on Fedora 13

Install Adobe (Acrobat PDF) Reader on Fedora 13

Install VirtualBox (with yum) on Fedora 13

Install PostgreSQL 8.4 Database Server on Fedora 13

Install NetBeans 6.9 on Fedora 13

Install tint2 Panel/Taskbar and tint2 Themes on Fedora 13

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3 Comments

Matthew / June 15, 2010

Ran the preupgrade and no problem but when I rebooted it didn’t go into installer. I previously upgraded from 11 to 12 this way without problems. It says it can’t find the kickstart and goes into manual. When I point it to the image it says it does not exist. Ideas?

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- JR / June 15, 2010
  
  Hi Matthew,
  
  Is it possible that the Preupgrade boot image wasn’t downloaded? Example because there wasn’t enough space on boot partition?
  
  Nothing irreversible has not yet occurred, I recommend following method to solve this problem.
  
  Can you get the GRUB menu?
  
  If not, then boot some live CD (to shell or desktop) and mount your boot partition (normally with following procedure)
  
  mkdir /boot_temp ## Use real boot partition mount /dev/sda1 /boot_fedora
  
  Then edit grub/menu.lst file, comment out Preupgrade rows (something like following):
  
  title Upgrade to Fedora 13 (Goddard) kernel /boot/upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade... initrd /boot/upgrade/initrd.img ## Should look following after comments ## #title Upgrade to Fedora 13 (Goddard) # kernel /boot/upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade... # initrd /boot/upgrade/initrd.img
  
  Then umount partition and reboot:
  
  ## Umount ## cd / umount /boot_fedora ## Reboot ## reboot
  
  Then your system should boot back to your Fedora 12 normally.
  
  Then I recommend try again Preupgrade method and check that the boot partition have enough free space for boot image (about 150 Mb should be enough, I guess). And when Preupgrade is finished then it’s also good to check that the kernel file /boot/upgrade/vmlinuz and initrd file /boot/upgrade/initrd.img really exist before next reboot.
  
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Geoff Crew / November 7, 2010

Your page was very helpful.

For reasons that escape me, preupgrade made a typo in the grub entry required for the installation (an obvious missing space before the kickstart file).

However a more troublesome problem was that after freeing up space in /boot I still didn’t have enough–the install image is apparently 150 MB. (Both your notes and those in the fedora docs have smaller numbers.) And, unfortunately, the installer had trouble pulling in the full 150MB without a hiccup. Pulling down a copy of this install image and placing it on my local network turned out to be a relatively easy solution (not the first thing I tried…).

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