F11 to F12 with netinstall iso

[thibdb]

Hello,

will it be possible to upgrade F11 to F12 using the netinstall iso?
I saw some people got problems when trying to upgrade from F10 to F11 with the netinstall iso: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504959

[CSchwangler]

I don't think the netinstall iso is intended for upgrading an existing system, but for fresh installations. I think the suggested way for upgrades is either preupgrade (downloads everything needed from a repo and then upgrades the system) or a installation dvd.

[stefan1975]

i once tried it the yum way. it sort of worked....but i usually do a fresh install......never did do a netinstall.iso upgrade though.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpg...-.3E_Fedora_12

[AdamW]

I believe it ought to be possible, but I'm not sure it's been explicitly tested.

[thibdb]

So, I tried it yesterday late and the upgrade worked without real problems.
It was well a bit slow but I suppose lots of people were trying to install make a netinstall of F12 around the same time so the servers could have been overloaded.

Nevertheless after the upgrade one big problem appeared: the graphic mode cannot start - I have to work with the console.
I suppose the reason is that I had the nvidia drivers installed on F11 and that my new F12 does not recognize them.
I tried a yum upgrade, which upgraded my rpmfusion sources and then a new update/upgrade.
After this I tried yum install nvidia-driver but it did not help.
Any idea??

[AdamW]

i'd start a new thread or post to an existing NVIDIA thread, as that's not really an update-related issue, just a 'getting NVIDIA proprietary drivers on f12 working' issue. For now you could remove all NVIDIA-related packages and delete /etc/X11/xorg.conf; that should get you a working nouveau setup from which you can attempt to re-install the proprietary driver.

[thibdb]

Originally Posted by AdamW

i'd start a new thread or post to an existing NVIDIA thread, as that's not really an update-related issue, just a 'getting NVIDIA proprietary drivers on f12 working' issue. For now you could remove all NVIDIA-related packages and delete /etc/X11/xorg.conf; that should get you a working nouveau setup from which you can attempt to re-install the proprietary driver.

I found a solution in another thread and it was quite simple after all:

yum --enablerepo=rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing install kmod-nvida
yum --enablerepo=rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia
yum --enablerepo=rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs

su -
mv /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r)-nouveau.img
dracut /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r)

setsebool -P allow_execstack on

see:
http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia#fedora_version_notes
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...=234039&page=2