Comments on How To Upgrade From Fedora 12 To Fedora 13 (Desktop & Server)

Instead of using preupgrade, you can use yum itself to upgrade with the command

yum --releasever=13 upgrade

 

This should work with most installations, at least that worked with mine.

Find the original article here.

http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in

This, maybe for different reasons, has happened during the 11 to 12 upgrade, and it's happening again.

The error message that says:

"Not enough free space in /boot/upgrade to download install.img"

The /boot partition is the standard 200MB F11 created when it installed. It has 120MB free but apparently install.img is larger than this. Problem is that unlike the 11to12 similar message, this time it doesn't say how much more space it needs. It just stops there and says you can download this after reboot if you have a wire network. No dice, if I go on, all data is downloaded for the upgrade, but once it boots it goes back to 12 without noticing any upgrade scripts.

So, what's the deal with install.img and how do we get around it?

Thanks for the guide and excellent site.

The problem your having is because you have to many kernels installed and a limited amount of boot space. Run this command in a terminal as root package-cleanup --oldkernels that will leave the original kernel and the latest you installed, all others will be removed leaving enough space for the upgrade. Like you I ran into the same problem during the last upgrade and that solved the problem. I guess you could allocate more space in the boot partition through LVM to achieve similar results. the preupgrade package should have some checks that will test these prerequisites before hand.

Fail:

# preupgrade-cli

Loaded plugins: blacklist, dellsysidplugin2, priorities, versionlock, whiteout
No plugin match for: rpm-warm-cache
No plugin match for: auto-update-debuginfo
No plugin match for: refresh-packagekit
No plugin match for: presto
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-cli.py", line 316, in <module>
pu = PreUpgradeCli()
File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-cli.py", line 52, in __init__
PreUpgrade.__init__(self)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/preupgrade/__init__.py", line 80, in __init__
self._getConfig()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 282, in _getConfig
startupconf.pluginconfpath,disabled_plugins,enabled_plugins)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 465, in doPluginSetup
plugin_types, confpath, disabled_plugins, enabled_plugins)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 160, in __init__
self.run('config')
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 177, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/versionlock.py", line 153, in config_hook
conduit.registerCommand(VersionLockCommand())
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 499, in registerCommand
self._base.registerCommand(command)
File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 106, in registerCommand
if name in self.yum_cli_commands:

AttributeError: 'PreUpgradeCli' object has no attribute 'yum_cli_commands'

I also faced same problem. But by googling I find solution from this article -

http://www.wilyness.com/blog/?p=137

Just wanted to pass on to anyone else doing the same as me.   I finally decided to upgrade my Fedora Core 10 server using the Yum method, and ran into a little problem when trying to go from FC 12 to FC 13.

It seems that the regular installer took care of this problem, but the yum method doesn't know about it.   You see they upgraded from an ext3 filesystem to ext4 back around FC11 from what I have read.  

When attempting the upgrade to Fedora Core 13, the installer complained that it couldn't see the previous installation.  Well, you guessed it, it was looking for an ext4 partition, and I didn't have any.   All mine were ext3!   Well, long story short, but after some looking and I found this page, that helped out!   

So, hope all this works out, and helps everyone else!   

 Upgrade ext3 to ext4 file system when upgrading fedora core 13