Upgrade to Fedora 11 from Fedora 10

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Fedora 11 Leonidas is Hardly a Spartan Linux has been released, it has faster performance and new security, virtualization, desktop and server features

on the faster side of things, Fedora 11 aims to have a 20 second boot time, which might rival Ubuntu Linux’s 25 second boot time in its recent Jaunty release. Fedora 11 also includes the new Ext4 file system which offers better performance and the ability to handle larger file sizes. New desktop features for device identification and management are also a key part of the Fedora 11 release.

Now to upgrade to fedora 11 from fedora 10,follow steps bellow you can also see the fedora project website for upgrade:

Methode 1: (easy way)

Type commands :

#yum -y update

then type

#yum install -y  preupgrade

and then

#yum clean all

reboot your machine

and start the command :

#preupgrade

for Gui mode (graphic mode) start

#preupgrade-cli "Fedora 11 (Leonidas)"

Methode 2: (advanced)

1- Run live update of your current fedora :

#yum   update -y

install the fast mirror for downloding packages

#yum install yum-fastestmirror

Then remove all traces of the version you are leaving from the yum cache in /var/cache/yum. 

#yum clean all

2- Now download and install these packages:

wget http://mirrors.nl.eu.kernel.org/fedora/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-11-1.noarch.rpm

wge t http://mirrors.nl.eu.kernel.org/fedora/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-notes-11.0.0-2.fc11.noarch.rpm

Install the rpm package :

rpm   -ivh   fedora-release-11-1.noarch.rpm   fedora-release-notes-11.0.0-2.fc11.noarch.rpm

Make sure the new repo files isn’t placed as .rpmnew files, perhaps by

mv /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo.rpmnew  /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo

 mv /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo.rpmnew  /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo

#init 3  

3- Now upgrade to Fedora 11 with

#yum  update -y   

#yum  upgrade -y

please note :

Before rebooting :

install the bootloader on your fist disk with (sda) :

/sbin/grub-install --recheck /dev/sda     

Optional :

the init scripts could be changed after the updates . Please restore the the init script with :

#cd /etc/rc.d/init.d; for f in *; do<
/font>; /sbin/chkconfig $f resetpriorities;  done

and is done

For questions please refer to our Q/A forum at : http://ask.unixmen.com

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