[mythtv-users] Fedora 8 bug looking for help

[David George]

On 12/06/2007 11:11 PM, Mitch Gore wrote:
> On Dec 6, 2007 9:44 PM, Christopher X. Candreva <chris at westnet.com 
> <mailto:chris at westnet.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, Mitch Gore wrote:
>
>     > It has since been resolved but with the resolution I don't see
>     how i can
>     > install F8 on my machine that only has sata drives.  I currently
>     have FC6
>     > installed on my backend and wanted to upgrade to F8 as FC6 is EOL.
>
>     Since you are doing an upgrade, you can upgrade via yum on the running
>     system:
>
>     http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
>
>     I've done this a few times, including 7->8 but not specificly 6->8.
>
>     This will upgrade directly to the current versions from updates so
>     you can
>     skip the buggy package.
>
>
> Im just afraid that its going to cause problems then i am going to be 
> stuck rebuilding everything with F7 clean install.  If thats the case 
> i would rather just leave the server alone and wait for F9.  If i do 
> F7 im going to be in the same situation in 6 months.
>
> Does Fedora ever update the ISO's for a version or do they just leave 
> it alone?  Seems kind of dumb that they would just leave it alone when 
> some people cant even install the OS if they moved from Windows.
Fedora Unity ( http://fedoraunity.org ) releases respins.  I haven't 
used their F8 respins, but I have used earlier ones.

I have also gone the yum upgrade method.  Not specifically the one 
above, but I looked at the link and it is similar to the one I used.  
No-one recommends skipping a version, but you can try it if you are 
brave.  Just make sure you have backups, including a mysql dump so you 
can restore the database.  If you do end up going to F7 (you can upgrade 
by installing the F7 CD and selecting upgrade), you should be able to 
use the yum upgrade method to go to 8.

-- 
David