{"id":4737,"date":"2013-07-03T09:04:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T13:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=4737"},"modified":"2013-07-05T10:00:11","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T14:00:11","slug":"linux-fedora-18-to-19-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2013\/07\/linux-fedora-18-to-19-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"linux fedora 18 to 19 upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/fedora-penguin.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/fedora-penguin.png\" alt=\"fedora-penguin\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/fedora-penguin.png 256w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/fedora-penguin-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a>Linux Fedora 19 was released yesterday, Tuesday July 2nd, 2013.<br \/>\nI downloaded the 32bit, 64 bit and live versions in the morning, made DVD&#8217;s of them,<br \/>\nand will use them to test out and try out on new machines.<\/p>\n<p>The upgrade process from Fedora 18 to 19 is  different than the past..<br \/>\nIn the past one would boot from the DVD and choose upgrade and let it go.<br \/>\nNow one is not even supposed to need the DVDs.  Rather it is all upgradable from the existing system.<\/p>\n<p>1. Log into the system as a regular user<br \/>\n2. switch user to root:  su<br \/>\n3. Install the fedup program:  yum install fedup<br \/>\n4. run the installed: fedup &#8211; &#8211; network 19<br \/>\n  It then downloads approx 678 packages in about 5 minutes.<br \/>\n5. Restart and choose &#8220;system upgrade&#8221; (default) : shutdown -r now<br \/>\n6. Wait while the upgrade progresses (about 20 minutes), then auto restart<\/p>\n<p>total time start to finish: 26 minutes<\/p>\n<p>remote login ok <\/p>\n<p>Linux version 3.9.8-300.fc19.i686.PAE<br \/>\nlooks good!  One down and a whole bunch to go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux Fedora 19 was released yesterday, Tuesday July 2nd, 2013. I downloaded the 32bit, 64 bit and live versions in the morning, made DVD&#8217;s of them, and will use them to test out and try out on new machines. The upgrade process from Fedora 18 to 19 is different than the past.. In the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}