upgrade fedora 7 to fedora 8 using DVD

hhmm…

required download from website or torrent .. Fedora-8-i386-DVD.iso
mkdir -p /media/fedora

mount -o loop Fedora-8-i386-DVD.iso /media/fedora

get to latest update of fc7

yum update -y
clean all cache..

yum clean all

get fedora 8 release..

rpm -Uvh /media/fedora/fedora-release-8-3.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh /media/fedora/fedora-release-notes-8.0.0-3.noarch.rpm

tweak yum.repos.d

insert this into /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo

[fedora-dvd] name=Fedora DVD baseurl=file:///media/fedora enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY

now for the real..

yum upgrade --disablerepo \\* --enablerepo fedora-dvd

but not that smooth..

i got this..

need some more..
yum remove yelp -y

SSH to home via k300i .. »

« hmm..

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HawkEYE says:

25 May , 2008 19:06 at 19:06

then got..

Transaction Check Error:
package kernel-2.6.23.15-80.fc7 (which is newer than kernel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8) is already installed
package kernel-2.6.23.17-88.fc7 (which is newer than kernel-2.6.23.1-42.fc8) is already installed

Error Summary
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HawkEYE says:

25 May , 2008 19:28 at 19:28

hm..

yum update kernel --disablerepo \* --enablerepo updates
depert says:

4 June , 2008 17:13 at 17:13

first, i see upgrade fedora 7 to fedora 8 using DVD
then, i see this :
... from website or torrent .. Fedora-9-i386-DVD.iso
mount -o loop Fedora-9-i386-DVD.iso /media/fedora

so, if i want to upgrade from fedora 7 to 8, i have to download fedora-9 .iso ?
HawkEYE says:

7 October , 2008 03:31 at 03:31

Gee...my typo error..

from 7 to 8.. then only need fc8 iso
and do..

mount -o loop Fedora-8-i386-DVD.iso /media/fedora

also make sure got the correct rpm-release package installed..

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