I’ve been running Fedora 11 for a while but the upgrade to 12 was highly recommended here, so I kicked off the upgrade per these instructions. To put it simply, the instructions require typing a single word in at the command line. Even I could get my head around that.
First I backed everything up. I’ve got an external drive that’s large enough to hold everything that matters. If something were to go wrong with this I wouldn’t be rolling back to the previous state. I’ll just wipe the machine and do a fresh install. But I’d like to see how this process goes.
I am a bit bummed that it’s not done this morning. I kicked it off last night and went home. Shortly after I left it stopped, to prompt me about something and so it really didn’t make any progress last night. That’s a bit disappointing and there is probably a way to do a silent install – but it’s not the end of the world. It’s not like the whole thing blew up on me – it just waited for me to come back. I’m in HR type meetings all day, so I’m hoping things are done by the end of that.
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My Fedora machine has finished upgrading to 11. I didn’t time it exactly but it looks like it took roughly 4 hours. That’s primarily due to the fact that it’s an older and slower machine. No errors or issues at this point – the login page doesn’t have the blue sun with solar flares any more. The new one looks cool but I really liked that sun. Have to see if there is a way to get it back.
First thing I did was start up my synergy server – because using a full size keyboard is where it is at.
I’m pleased that things looked to have gone well. For a bleeding edge distro Fedora is pretty smooth. There are bumps of course, that’s part of being out front – finding and marking them but all in all I’m impressed with just how usable it is as a desktop OS.
My Fedora system just told me it wants to upgrade to 11. I haven’t done a Fedora upgrade in years. They used to always blow up on me so I got into the habit of backing up what I needed and doing a fresh install. They roll out new versions pretty rapidly so I also got into the habit of skipping every other version. I did break that pattern though when KDE 4 came out because I wanted to move forward as rapidly as possible as they fixed the pretty sever issues it had.
So we’ll see if things are any different now. The package manager software just popped up and so I told it to go ahead. Now it says it has 5 steps to preparing:
- Download release info
- Download installer images
- Determine which packages to download
- Download packages
- Prepare and test upgrade
It says I can just keep working away while it does it’s thing but I think I’ll try to stay off that box to some extent so it can get done as quickly as possible.
Just upgraded from RC1 to RC2 using the automatic update feature available in 2.7. Painless and crazy fast. I hit the button – watched the steps scroll by and it was over. Upgrading will now actually be faster than backing up. No more need to download, unzip, copy over and such. Now an upgrade will consist of backing up the database, backing up the file system and then hitting the upgrade button. Life is good.
Word on the street was that anyone still on WP 2.6 should just move on over to 2.7 RC1 now – 2.7 final comes out tonight. I have to say that the new admin interface looks to be very, very sweet. The upgrade took just a few minutes and that was all moving files around. The actual upgrade once everything was transferred to the server was a couple seconds long. I like this already.
If you hit the site in the last 4 minutes or so – you might have seen it hiccup as I moved to WordPress 2.3. I like to stay current for security more than anything. The new interface is pretty nice too. I did our main page last week and have been real happy with it. There is a new feature – tags – that I haven’t messed with yet.
Looks like the theme came over fine, and all the little extras I’ve wedged into the side columns. Well – I wont go on more, not much of interest to you probably, but I love when upgrades are smooth.
