On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:04:30 +0000
John Pilkington <J.Pilk(a)tesco.net> wrote:
My box came with MS Vista and I initially added f10, which was fully
updated until near EOL. Later I added a second disk and f12, and
recently I used preupgrade for f12-to-f13. That went well, and I
decided to try f10-to-f14. The packages were identified and put into
cache and after I had copied the new lines in grub.conf from disk 1
to disk 2 the upgrade entry appeared in the Grub menu. The kernel
boots but I don't think it sees the preupgrade cache and the only
option offered is to upgrade the f13 system. I don't want to do that.
This isn't really answering your question, just giving you what I hope
is a helpful suggestion. Don't try to preupgrade f10 to f14. From F11
to F12 the format of rpm changed and isn't backward compatible. So you
have to do F10 -> F11, then F11 -> F12, then F12 -> F14. You are
better off just saving any irreplaceable information from the F10
installation, and doing a fresh install of F14 on those partitions (use
custom on the DVD menu to select them).
Don't believe me. See the trials and tribulations of a poor soul named
Patrick Dupre in the links below. (Ctrl-F, search on Dupre).
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-November/author.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2010-November/author.html