Upgrade to Fedora 13 from Fedora 12 with Preupgrade
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
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?
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)
Then edit grub/menu.lst file, comment out Preupgrade rows (something like following):
Then umount partition and 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.
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…).