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How To Upgrade From Fedora 16 To Fedora 17 (Desktop & Server) This article describes how you can upgrade your Fedora 16 system to Fedora 17. The upgrade procedure works for both desktop and server installations.
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The upgrade procedure is nice but Fedora 17 is the Desktop counterpart to RedHat Enterprise Linux (which is the server distribution).
By definition there is no Fedora server. It is the testing grounds for what will be in the next RedHat server (RHEL) and has server packages available to it, but is itself meant to be a desktop distribution.
I do not mean to split hairs but the title is misleading, and users may get confused when they try to figure out if they have downloaded the desktop or server version of Fedora.
Again thanks for the write up, it is good.
you should probably have a warning of the prerequisite somewhere as well
Your system cannot be upgraded with preupgrade if any of the following apply:
- If your /boot partition is on RAID. See bug 500004.
Apparantly, 'preupgrade' does not employ the proxy settings you may have for "yum", so you may need to specify them with envoronment variables. My work environment required this. I had to:
# export http_proxy=http://proxy.mysite.mycompany.com:1234
# export https_proxy=${http_proxy}
and then re-run preupgrade.
This info is obsolete because Fedora has deleted the mirrors :(