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How To Upgrade From Fedora 15 To Fedora 16 (Desktop & Server) This article describes how you can upgrade your Fedora 15 system to Fedora 16. The upgrade procedure works for both desktop and server installations.
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Before the start I had 620MB RAM available. The preupgrade process went fine and all files were downloaded. However after the reboot I only got blinking prompt. On the second boot I got my old F15 system back.
Wonder if I should repeat the steps...?
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This didn't work for me either. preupgrade still has an old bug in it where it won't allow you to upgrade if you have /boot in a RAID1 configuration.
Also, I tried a manual upgrade with the DVD, and it hasn't worked for me at all. Grub seems to be looking for the wrong UUID. Same issue with a fresh install with both /boot in a RAID1 configuration, and with it not (while / and /home were RAID1).
I'm very unhappy about this, and am thinking of dropping Fedora for something else at this point.
Well it mostly worked for me from 15 but I seem to have lost gcc and gcc-c++, which I had to get again manually.
Ho hum
I expect to fnd more bits missing as I go along...:-)
I used http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum and the upgrade went perfectly without a long downtime. Preupgrade needs too much downtime.
It worked for me without any error.I use Fedora in vbox,everything was fine.
i ran preupgrade multiple times.
first time... it seemed to download what's needed, then i rebooted and nothing new happened.
the second time... computer seemed frozen at start-up, i pressed some key and it rebooted. still... i was with the old fedora 15.
then i had patience... for the third time... and didn't press anything when the computer rebooted... and yeees... it worked... after a while it began installing software for fedora 16. it took a few hours... but you know what they say "patience is a virtue" :D
thank you for this guide! fedora rocks!