The other day I upgraded my old notebook, an HP Pavillion ZE4400 to Fedora 8 from a running Fedora 7, I saved all the rpm packages because I was planning to upgrade my other machines (no point on re-downloading everything again). To do this, I followed the procedure outlined at a couple of the multiple guides found on the internet:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
http://allaboutfedora.blogspot.com/2007/11/live-upgrade-from-f7-to-f8.html
http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/f8-tips.php#upgrade
but instead of going with the update right away I did (multiple times, while uninstalling packages causing conflict):
yum --downloadonly upgrade
I got a full directory cache with all the required packages. Then I copied them to an external drive (/var/cache/yum), all these files can be copied onto the cache of the machine to be upgraded.
Also I always install the livna repository (http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm)and installed it before hand.
With each install I also keep a log with all the output and search for the *.rpmsaved *.rpmnew files and replace or delete as needed.
Everything went fine. System is now running Fedora 8.
For my wife's dell latitude D510 running F7 I downloaded the DVD iso and booted the machine with it. To my surprise, the machine enters either an endless loop or endless waiting state. I found a note on the internet:
http://hip2b2.yutivo.org/2007/12/08/upgrading-to-fedora-8-on-a-dell-latitude-d510/
I will wait for the guys from the fedora Unity project to create a new F8 dvd (re-spin) that fixes the problem (I of course e-mailed the person in charge to learn if the problem was on his radar):
http://kanarip.blogspot.com/2007/12/fedora-8-re-spin-in-making.html
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