Booservers - All about dedicated servers http://www.booservers.com Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2 Upgrade <p>As we have decided to go down the Fedora Path, instead of the RHEL path, we now have to contend with Fedora's really short release cycle.</p><p>To comprehend this, we will be writing how-to's for those interested to continually migrate their Systems to the newest Fedora Core releases.</p><p>Fedora Core 1 EOL's very soon, and to that end, we have prepared a painless upgrader to upgrade Fedora Core 1 systems to Fedora Core 2.</p><p>If any mods/admins view this thread, could they please sticky it.</p><br/><center><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-7209259988091090"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; google_ad_format = "300x250_as"; google_ad_type = "text_image"; google_ad_channel ="3498328464"; google_color_border = "FFFFFF"; google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; google_color_link = "006633"; google_color_url = "000000"; google_color_text = "0033CC"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></center><br>The main advantages of this upgrade include<p>- 2.6.7 Kernel, bringing more security and speed to Systems (Especially P4's/Xeon's with Hyperthreading)<br />- Python 2.3<br />- RPM 4.3<br />- GLibc 2.3.3</p><p>and countless package upgrades providing new features and security enhancements.</p><p>Since Fedora Core 1 uses an older version of Python &amp; RPM, if you try to use Yum to update your system (i.e. upgrade the fedora-release package, and try to </p><p>yum upgrade) things will break.</p><p>To that end, we have provided 2 base package upgrades that will update your system's base components (RPM, Python, GLibc etc) to make the remainder of the </p><p>upgrade easy.</p><p>Note: Before you start bashing away at your keyboard, there is a FULL command listing below to make the upgrade process fully automated, so just read below, </p><p>but dont skip anything as it is important.</p><p><br />Firstly, you need to download base package update, which can be found here <a href="http://files.oktagone.net/fedora/fc...de/base.tar.bz2">http://files.oktagone.net/fedora/fc...de/base.tar.bz2</a> (~81MB)</p><p>If anyone has any queries as to exactly what this package contains, here is the list of files.</p><p>------------------------------</p><p>base/authconfig-4.6.2-1.i386.rpm<br />base/authconfig-gtk-4.6.2-1.i386.rpm<br />base/compat-db-4.1.25-2.1.i386.rpm<br />base/comps-extras-9.92-1.noarch.rpm<br />base/db4-4.2.52-3.1.i386.rpm<br />base/db4-devel-4.2.52-3.1.i386.rpm<br />base/expect-5.39.0-96.1.i386.rpm<br />base/expect-devel-5.39.0-96.1.i386.rpm<br />base/fedora-release-2-4.i386.rpm<br />base/glibc-2.3.3-27.i686.rpm<br />base/glibc-common-2.3.3-27.i386.rpm<br />base/glibc-devel-2.3.3-27.i386.rpm<br />base/glibc-headers-2.3.3-27.i386.rpm<br />base/glibc-kernheaders-2.4-8.44.i386.rpm<br />base/libselinux-1.11.4-1.i386.rpm<br />base/libselinux-devel-1.11.4-1.i386.rpm<br />base/libxml2-2.6.8-1.i386.rpm<br />base/libxml2-devel-2.6.8-1.i386.rpm<br />base/libxml2-python-2.6.8-1.i386.rpm<br />base/nscd-2.3.3-27.i386.rpm<br />base/pam-0.77-40.i386.rpm<br />base/pam-devel-0.77-40.i386.rpm<br />base/popt-1.9.1-0.3.i386.rpm<br />base/python-2.3.3-6.i386.rpm<br />base/python-devel-2.3.3-6.i386.rpm<br />base/python-docs-2.3.3-6.i386.rpm<br />base/python-optik-1.4.1-5.noarch.rpm<br />base/python-tools-2.3.3-6.i386.rpm<br />base/rhpl-0.143-1.i386.rpm<br />base/rpm-4.3.1-0.3.i386.rpm<br />base/rpm-build-4.3.1-0.3.i386.rpm<br />base/rpmdb-fedora-2-0.20040513.i386.rpm<br />base/rpm-devel-4.3.1-0.3.i386.rpm<br />base/rpm-python-4.3.1-0.3.i386.rpm<br />base/shadow-utils-4.0.3-21.i386.rpm<br />base/tcl-8.4.5-7.i386.rpm<br />base/tcl-devel-8.4.5-7.i386.rpm<br />base/tclx-8.3.5-2.i386.rpm<br />base/tix-8.1.4-96.1.i386.rpm<br />base/tix-devel-8.1.4-96.1.i386.rpm<br />base/tk-8.4.5-8.i386.rpm<br />base/tk-devel-8.4.5-8.i386.rpm<br />base/tkinter-2.3.3-6.i386.rpm</p><p>------------------------------</p><p>The second package is a Xfree to xorg-x11 transition pack. Since Xfree has screwed up their Distribution licensing now, Fedora and most other respectable </p><p>*nix distro's have moved from Xfree to xorg.</p><p>The package can be grabbed from <a href="http://files.oktagone.net/fedora/fc...e/xfree.tar.bz2">http://files.oktagone.net/fedora/fc...e/xfree.tar.bz2</a> (~30MB)</p><p>File contents</p><p>------------------------------</p><p>xfree/xorg-x11-6.7.0-2.i386.rpm<br />xfree/xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.7.0-2.i386.rpm<br />xfree/xorg-x11-font-utils-6.7.0-2.i386.rpm<br />xfree/xorg-x11-xfs-6.7.0-2.i386.rpm<br />xfree/xorg-x11-libs-6.7.0-2.i386.rpm<br />xfree/xorg-x11-libs-data-6.7.0-2.i386.rpm<br />xfree/xorg-x11-truetype-fonts-6.7.0-2.i386.rpm<br />xfree/xorg-x11-xauth-6.7.0-2.i386.rpm<br />xfree/xorg-x11-devel-6.7.0-2.i386.rpm<br />xfree/xorg-x11-base-fonts-6.7.0-2.i386.rpm<br />xfree/freetype-2.1.7-4.i386.rpm<br />xfree/freetype-devel-2.1.7-4.i386.rpm<br />xfree/chkfontpath-1.10.0-1.i386.rpm<br />xfree/VFlib2-2.25.6-21.i386.rpm<br />xfree/Glide3-20010520-30.i386.rpm<br />xfree/Glide3-devel-20010520-30.i386.rpm<br />xfree/xinitrc-3.39-1.noarch.rpm<br />xfree/switchdesk-4.0.3-1.noarch.rpm</p><p>------------------------------</p><p>The next step is to clean up the dependancies that yum will have problems with. Dont worry about removing these rpm's below because yum will simply reinstall </p><p>them.</p><p>rpm -e exim --force</p><p>Next, you want to get a new yum.conf so you have a &quot;reliable&quot; and stable update source.</p><p>Grab our tested yum.conf - <a href="http://files.oktagone.net/fedora/fc...pgrade/yum.conf">http://files.oktagone.net/fedora/fc...pgrade/yum.conf</a></p><p>Now, we are ready to use yum. It's sexy and easy. Just type yum update, and Yum will download all the headers, and RPM's as needed. Remember to press Y once </p><p>the deps testing is done. If you have any errors and yum cannot complete due to package conflicts, please paste them so i can debug why this happens, and </p><p>give you a solution.</p><p>When yum is complete, you will need to perform a reboot to boot into the new kernel you have aquired. Before doing this, it's important to check </p><p>/boot/grub/grub.conf to see that the new kernel (2.6.7-1.494.2.2) is there.</p><p>Your grub.conf should look something like this</p><p>default=0<br />failsafe=1<br />timeout=10<br />splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz<br />title Fedora Core (2.6.7-1.494.2.2)<br />root (hd0,0)<br />kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.7-1.494.2.2 ro root=LABEL=/1<br />initrd /initrd-2.6.7-1.494.2.2.img<br />title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2197.nptl)<br />root (hd0,0)<br />kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2197.nptl ro root=LABEL=/1<br />initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2197.nptl.img</p><p><br />(Note: The failsafe line isnt necessary if you dont have it).</p><p>If it looks good, exit your text editor, and reboot.</p><p>If all went to plan, your box should be back up in a few minutes.</p><p>Once its live again, there's a few things you need to do to fix up services.</p><p>First, you want to tell cPanel to use Yum now instead of APT, so we run</p><p>touch /var/cpanel/useyum</p><p><br />Then, we want to fix exim, since YUM installs a standard Fedora version of it, which wont work with cPanel.</p><p>Simply grab the cPanel Exim RPM from here - and install it.<br /><a href="http://updates.cpanel.net/exim-cpan...xiscan.i386.rpm">http://updates.cpanel.net/exim-cpan...xiscan.i386.rpm</a></p><p>rpm -Uhv exim* --force is the command you'll need to use, since exim is allready installed, and may conflict with a package called &quot;setup&quot;</p><p>Then, rebuild Apache using /scripts/easyapache. Option 4 is reccomended.</p><p>Now, your all done!</p><p>Go into WHM, and check your services stats. Everything should be running, and your system is now running the latest, fully updated Fedora Core 2.</p><p>If anyone needs help with this upgrade feel free to PM me, however any problems should be posted below so that others can benefit from your feedback.</p><p>Thanks!</p><p><br />COMMAND OUTPUT</p><p>Step 1: Setup Directory and get required files.<br />mkdir upgrade<br />cd upgrade<br />wget <a href="http://files.oktagone.net/fedora/fc...de/base.tar.bz2">http://files.oktagone.net/fedora/fc...de/base.tar.bz2</a><br />wget <a href="http://files.oktagone.net/fedora/fc...e/xfree.tar.bz2">http://files.oktagone.net/fedora/fc...e/xfree.tar.bz2</a></p><p>Step 2: verify the MD5's by typing<br />md5sum base.tar.bz2<br />md5sum xfree.tar.bz2</p><p>Step 3: Extract RPM's and upgrade them<br />tar -xvjpf base.tar.bz2<br />tar -xvjpf xfree.tar.bz2<br />rpm -Uhv base/*.rpm <br />rpm -Uhv xfree/*.rpm</p><p>Step 4: Fix Deps and run yum<br />rpm -e exim --force<br />wget <a href="http://files.oktagone.net/fedora/fc...pgrade/yum.conf">http://files.oktagone.net/fedora/fc...pgrade/yum.conf</a> -O /etc/yum.conf<br />yum update</p><p>Step 5: Check boot stuff<br />nano /boot/grub/grub.conf</p><p>Step 6: Reboot<br />reboot -n</p><p>Step 7: Fix Exim / Apache<br />touch /var/cpanel/useyum<br />rpm -Uhv <a href="http://updates.cpanel.net/exim-cpan...xiscan.i386.rpm">http://updates.cpanel.net/exim-cpan...xiscan.i386.rpm</a> --force<br />/scripts/easyapache</p><p><br />(end)</p> http://www.booservers.com/archivo/12_fedora_core_1_to_fedora_core_2_upgrade.html Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:08:18 +0000