update fedora core 4 to 5

[anyweb]

thanks to znx for the link,

 

[/url][url=http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading...x_with_yum.html]http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Upgrading...x_with_yum.html

 

cheers

 

anyweb

[znx]

The basic idea is to have your system fully up-to-date. Then you should make sure that you are using the NEWEST kernel.

 

Therefore reboot your system to it if needed. Remove all the old kernels by checking:

Code:

yum -y list installed | grep kernel

 

Remove any old kernels for instance:

Code:

yum remove kernel-2.4.11*

 

Once thats done, install the release file:

Code:

rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm

 

The do the upgrade.

Code:

yum update
yum upgrade

 

If you get a failure. As long as the package isn't system critical, remove it.

 

If all goes well, then a reboot and you should have FC5.

[anyweb]

if like me you have a mixture of one cpu (kernel) and two or more cpu's (kernel-smp) kernel's installed you'll have to do the following to remove the smp kernels

 

Code:

#[root@www ~]# yum -y list installed | grep kernel
kernel.i686                              2.6.16-1.2111_FC4      installed
kernel.i686                              2.6.16-1.2096_FC4      installed
kernel.i686                              2.6.17-1.2141_FC4      installed
kernel.i686                              2.6.17-1.2142_FC4      installed
kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.17-1.2142_FC4      installed
kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.15-1.1833_FC4      installed
kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.17-1.2141_FC4      installed
kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.16-1.2111_FC4      installed
kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.11-1.1369_FC4      installed
kernel-smp.i686                          2.6.16-1.2096_FC4      installed

[root@www ~]# yum remove kernel-smp-2.6.15*
Setting up Remove Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package kernel-smp.i686 0:2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 set to be erased
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size
=============================================================================
Removing:
kernel-smp              i686       2.6.15-1.1833_FC4  installed          42 M

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install      0 Package(s)
Update       0 Package(s)
Remove       1 Package(s)
Total download size: 0
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Removing  : kernel-smp                   ######################### [1/1]

Removed: kernel-smp.i686 0:2.6.15-1.1833_FC4
Complete!

 

keep going until you only have the latest kernel installed in your list of kernels

 

cheers

anyweb

[hybrid]

Cool! :)

 

Should this work for FC5 to FC6 when it is finished?

[anyweb]

it should, and f.y.i i have used the above method to upgrade the [/url][url=https://www.linux-noob.com]https://www.linux-noob.com server (was FC4) to FC5 remotly via shh.

 

[anyweb@www ~]$ uname -aLinux www.linux-noob.com 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5smp #1 SMP Mon Sep 11 01:32:34 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[anyweb@www ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release

Fedora Core release 5 (Bordeaux)

[anyweb@www ~]$ uptime

10:14:00 up 3 min, 2 users, load average: 0.35, 0.54, 0.24

 

 

cheers

 

anyweb

[znx]

Should this work for FC5 to FC6 when it is finished?

 

Indeed this method will be similar for all the upgrades of FC.

[anyweb]

well it didn't go all that easy, had to ask for help on our irc channel (thanks jy/znx/flukex) and the following commands show what I did during the process to go from fcr5 to fcr6

 

Code:

yum -y list installed | grep kernel
uname -a
w
w
yum remove kernel-2.6.20-1*
yum -y list installed | grep kernel
yum remove kernel-2.6.20-1.2316.fc5
yum remove kernel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5
yum -y list installed | grep kernel
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/Fedora/fedora-release-7-3.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/Fedora/fedora-release-notes-7.0.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/Fedora/fedora-release-7-3.noarch.rpm
vi /etc/yum.conf
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
ls
rm livna*
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/Fedora/fedora-release-notes-7.0.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm -e livna-release-5-8.noarch
yum remove apt
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/Fedora/fedora-release-notes-7.0.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/7/Fedora/i386/os/Fedora/fedora-release-7-3.noarch.rpm
ls /etc/fedora-release
ls -ls /etc/*release*
vi /etc/fedora-release
yum -y update
ls
vi fedora-core.repo
rm freshrpms.repo
ls
cd ..
ls
vi yum.conf
cd yum.repos.d/
ls
vi fedora-updates.repo
vi /etc/redhat-release
yum update
yum clean all
yum update
rpm -qa|grep fedora-release
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-6-4.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-notes-6-3.noarch.rpm
w
ls
wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-notes-6-3.noarch.rpm
wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-6-4.noarch.rpm
ls
rpm -Uvh fedora-release-6-4.noarch.rpm fedora-release-notes-6-3.noarch.rpm
yum clean all
yum update
ps aux |grep yum
yum clean all
yum -y update
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
ls
vi fedora-extras.repo
uptime
reboot

 

when i get the chance i'll document the apparent mess above :P

 

but for those of you wanting a quick fix to yum update fedora core release 5 to fedora core release 6 try this

 

Code:

wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-notes-6-3.noarch.rpm
wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-6-4.noarch.rpm
ls
rpm -Uvh fedora-release-6-4.noarch.rpm fedora-release-notes-6-3.noarch.rpm
yum clean all
yum update

 

cheers

anyweb

[anyweb]

ok i've now attempted to update this server from Fedora Core release 6 to Fedora 8

 

using the following commands

Code:

wget ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-notes-8.0.0-3.noarch.rpm
wget ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-8-3.noarch.rpm
ls -al
rpm -Uvh fedora-release-8-3.noarch.rpm fedora-release-notes-8.0.0-3.noarch.rpm
yum clean all
yum update
yum remove rhnlib up2date
yum clean all
yum update
yum remove gstreamer08-plugins
yum update
reboot

 

which has worked but not perfectly, see below

 

[root@www ~]# uname -aLinux www.linux-noob.com 2.6.20-1.2316.fc5smp #1 SMP Fri Apr 27 20:34:56 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[root@www ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)

 

so how do I fix the wrong kernel being loaded...

[anyweb]

odd, but I had to run yum -y update again and this time it correclty applied the updates

 

[anyweb@www ~]$ uname -aLinux www.linux-noob.com 2.6.23.15-137.fc8 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 17:48:34 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[anyweb@www ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release

Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)