Upgrading to Fedora 17 with a seperate /usr/lib [was: perl-PDL]
On 3/17/13, Patrick Dupre <Patrick.Dupre(a)univ-littoral.fr> wrote:
the problem is that the update to fedora 17 failed (probably) because
the
/usr /usr/lib and /
partitions need to be on the same partition!
Fedora 17+ supports a separate /usr just fine. It's the separate
/usr/lib that's screwing it up. (I suspect the upgrade process isn't
mounting /usr/lib.) Since this is not a common configuration, you'll
need to do a little extra work to accomplish an upgrade.
You need to instruct dracut to mount the necessary partitions during
early boot. To do so, create a file /etc/fstab.sys and copy the lines
for /, /usr, and /usr/lib from /etc/fstab to it. Then, create a file
/etc/dracut.conf.d/02-fstab-sys.conf with this line:
add_dracutmodules += " fstab-sys "
(Note that spaces inside the quotation marks; they are necessary.)
You can then follow the yum upgrade instructions here to update to Fedora 17:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fedora_16_-.3E_...
-T.C.