{"id":198,"date":"2010-07-16T17:23:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T06:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fallowbrow.rumblehead.com\/?p=198"},"modified":"2010-07-16T17:23:41","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T06:23:41","slug":"fedora-12-to-13-worst-upgrade-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rumblehead.com\/fallowbrow\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Fedora 12 to 13: Worst upgrade ever."},"content":{"rendered":"

Some people think I’m strange for running Fedora as my primary operating system at home, but I’ve always liked it.\u00a0 The stuff I need to be stable is always rock-solid, and if there is a new feature in a program I use, I’ll get it a year before it goes into Ubuntu or RHEL. Poking, prodding, and breaking stuff occasionally is half the fun.<\/p>\n

BUT<\/em> in my history using Red Hat Linux 6 through all the Fedoras, I have never had upgrade problems like I had going to Fedora 13.<\/p>\n

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  1. The DVD media wouldn’t boot. Something to do with my motherboard I think. Same media and DVD-drive work fine if plug it in via a SATA-to-USB adapter cable.<\/li>\n
  2. Upgrading existing installation did not work.\u00a0 The installer didn’t see my Fedora 12 installation and wanted to re-partition my drive.<\/li>\n
  3. When I installed Fedora 13 on a blank HDD, I had problems using the NVIDIA driver.\u00a0 I’m sure Nouveau is coming along leaps and bounds, but until it can beat the NVIDIA proprietary drivers, I don’t want it.\u00a0 Probably could have fixed this, but I gave up.<\/li>\n
  4. I re-imaged back to Fedora 12, then tried using “preupgrade”.\u00a0 It downloaded 1.5 Gigabytes of data then failed to work. Told me it couldn’t find my \/root.<\/li>\n
  5. I finally resorted to the non-recommended option – upgrade via “yum”.\u00a0 This worked pretty well. I had a few small issues (all my USB devices worked in Virtualbox except<\/em> my printer) but nothing more than the usual upgrade quirks. I am typing this on a working Fedora 13.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I guess it could have been worse, I could have installed Windows 7 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Some people think I’m strange for running Fedora as my primary operating system at home, but I’ve always liked it.\u00a0 The stuff I need to be stable is always rock-solid, and if there is a new feature in a program I use, I’ll get it a year before it goes into Ubuntu or RHEL. Poking, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20,32,64],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-passes-for-thought","tag-fedora","tag-linux","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rumblehead.com\/fallowbrow\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rumblehead.com\/fallowbrow\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rumblehead.com\/fallowbrow\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumblehead.com\/fallowbrow\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumblehead.com\/fallowbrow\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rumblehead.com\/fallowbrow\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rumblehead.com\/fallowbrow\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumblehead.com\/fallowbrow\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumblehead.com\/fallowbrow\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}