Upgrade FC7 to FC8

Logbook entry: Upgrade Fedora Core 7 to Fedora Core 8

Based on Upgrading Fedora Using Yum

  • Update FC7
  • yum update
    
  • Clean FC7
  • yum clean all
    
  • Switch repositories
  • rpm -Uhv http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/o... http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/fedora/linux/releases/8/Fedora/i386/o...
    
  • Check the /etc/yum.repos.d
  • # ls -l
    total 32
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1907 2007-10-30 03:25 fedora-development.repo
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1168 2007-10-30 03:25 fedora.repo
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1078 2007-10-30 03:25 fedora-updates.repo
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1156 2007-10-30 03:25 fedora-updates-testing.repo
    
  • Update rmp and yum packages
  • yum update rpm* yum*
    
  • Upgrade all
  • yum upgrade
    
  • Installing the new bootloader
  • grub-install /dev/sda
    
  • /dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.
  • grub-install --recheck /dev/sda
    

    Reboot