Upgrading from F16 to F18 - no need for a rolling release ...

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\ It was last week when a couple of issues summed up and forced me to think about how to update my working machine from Fedora 16 to Fedora 18.\ Basically I had the choice between running a fresh (after a decent backup)  install or upgrading from Fedora 16, via 17, to 18.\ In general I really prefer doing fresh installs - as you get a clean system and old cruft is removed, but this time I tried to avoid to backup all the little pieces which somehow tangent my work environment.\ Those pieces ain’t mission critical, it’s just that re-creating them is boring.\ Long story short - I just went the upgrade path, with doing a fresh install being my fallback solution.\ \ \

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\ I ran pre-upgrade on the Fedora 16, which initially failed (It got confused by the EFI setup), but this could be fixed by manually adding the grub entry for booting up pre-upgrade.\ It took a couple of hours until the upgrade was finished. But everything seemed to work. After trying a couple of applications, I installed fedup and - just waited. It felt a bit longer but also finally succeeded.\ I was a bit concerned right after the update, because I was confronted with a dracut rescue shell. But a reboot helped.\ It seems that there is a time out for lucks prompt, which drops you to the emergency shell in case you don’t enter the password in time.\ \

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\ Now, two days later, everything is still working. Only the kerberos client UI is missing and I had to install realmd.\ The thing about this is, that I actually didn’t expect this upgrade path to work. I expected more hassles.

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