Werewolf (Fedora 8) Upgrade in 3 Easy Steps Using yum
Recently, there was a request in one of my comments on this post. The request was for an easy way to upgrade from Fedora 7 to Fedora 8. So I took this on as a bit of a challenge. I feel pretty comfortable with yum and I thought it would be a [...]
Thoughts on the Fedora Upgrade – Part 1
So its been a whole two days since I upgraded to Werewolf. I love it! Most everything works out of the box (OOTB), wireless, bluetooth, even suspend/resume seem to be possible for the first time!
But one of the oddities I encountered while upgrading was the names of the packages. Mind you, this [...]
Upgraded! Fedora 8 (Werewolf) is installed!
And so the saga continues!
Transaction Summary
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Install 98 Package(s)
Update 1092 Package(s)
Remove 2 Package(s)
Total download size: 1.3 G
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Resulted in:
$ cat /etc/*release
Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)
Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)
Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)
I did have a few problems, mostly things that were from [...]
Upgrading to werewolf
Wish me luck. I’ve decided to take the plunge and upgrade to werewolf tonight. After reading Max Spevack’s post about how to upgrade to Fedora 8, this post from Will Woods stating that Rawhide is now ready to go and of course the current code freeze for this Thursday’s release, I think its [...]
