{"id":11164,"date":"2008-04-22T01:47:45","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T22:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=11164"},"modified":"2008-04-22T01:48:47","modified_gmt":"2008-04-21T22:48:47","slug":"preupgrading-fedora-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/22\/preupgrading-fedora-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Preupgrading Fedora 9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fedora 9<\/a> is coming Real Soon Now \u00a9. I mentioned before that I am desperately waiting for this release, since it brings KDE 4 and Firefox 3. One thing that I haven’t seen noticed anywhere until I read this interview<\/a> is “preupgrade”. It sounds pretty cool:<\/p>\n

By now, the \u201cpreupgrade\u201d package should be available in updates-testing for Fedora 8. Enable the updates-testing repo and install it. It currently shows up as \u201cUpgrade Fedora\u201d in your Applications -> System menu.
\nFrom there, it\u2019s very simple – follow the screens to choose what to upgrade to, wait for everything to download, hit \u201cReboot\u201d, and the upgrade will begin!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Basically, what happens is that Fedora 9 installer is downloaded together with all the required packages, while you are still using Fedora 8. Once everything is in place, you can simply reboot and upgrade your system, without burning any CDs or DVDs or waiting for long downloads while having nothing to do.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Fedora 9 is coming Real Soon Now \u00a9. I mentioned before that I am desperately waiting for this release, since it brings KDE 4 and Firefox 3. One thing that I haven’t seen noticed anywhere until I read this interview is “preupgrade”. It sounds pretty cool: By now, the \u201cpreupgrade\u201d package should be available in … Continue reading Preupgrading Fedora 9<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,133,62],"tags":[2351,1251,39,19],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-sysadmin","category-technology","tag-fedora-linux","tag-interviews","tag-software","tag-tools"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t