Fedora 6 to Fedora 8 Upgrade
Published 1.20.2008 by ~mattg
Two things prompted my recent decision to upgrade the server from Fedora 6 to Fedora 8:
- I was researching Linux distros for an old Pentium I have and came across this page, which provides a pretty comprehensive guide to upgrading your Fedora builds using Yum, as opposed to uninstall/reinstall
- It’s freakin’ freezing outside, what else am I going to do?
Following the steps listed in the link above, I had virtually no real problems running the upgrade. The only snag was a file in samba-common was causing conflicts that prevented the upgrade, but I simply uninstalled samba, upgraded, then reinstalled the package. Like I said, it was a pretty painless experience.
As I said before, I have an old Pentium that I’m trying to find a use for, although I’m starting the think the best use for that pig is to grab the 10GB hard drive out of it an put it in my current server. There really is no use for me to have another machine hanging around.
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Did you do a two step process (6->7, 7->8) or did you go straight from 6 to 8?
I was able to go from 6 directly to 8. If you follow the notes from the page above, the biggest change is the use of libdata for IDE drives. As long as you follow the instructions, you shouldn’t have any problems.