There have been times recently when I wanted to pull a VirtualBox Linux instance I had into Xen. I kept thinking it had to be fairly easy but I kept putting off trying it until recently when I ran into something I wanted to install from a CD image into an Amazon EC2 AMI. It turns out the main hurdle in transferring an image is lack of documentation. I'm using VirtualBox 2.1.0 so some of the … [Read more...]
Installing Windows 7 on VirtualBox
January 13, 2009 by Leave a Comment
I have been seeing people talk about the Windows 7 Beta being available to download so I went to see how hard it was to sign up. It turns out that it actually pretty easy so I decided I would give it a try under VirtualBox just to see if it would work. The following is a list of steps I took. To start with I'm using Fedora 10 as the host OS. I've had good luck with previous versions of Windows … [Read more...]
Upgrading from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10 with yum
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Fedora 10 is out and once again it is time to upgrade. The upgrade from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10 is almost exactly like the upgrade from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9. Here are the steps you need to do the upgrade from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10. Before I go on about doing this by hand you should know that you can use PreUpdate once it populates with the latest update. yum update yum clean all I like to … [Read more...]
Upgrading from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 with yum
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A new release of Fedora is out again so it is time to check out the upgrade. This time it is the Fedora 9 release. The upgrade from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9 is almost exactly like the upgrade to Fedora 8. Here are the steps you need to do the upgrade from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9: As someone points out in the comments there is a new facility to do upgrades that you can install. See the following wiki … [Read more...]
Upgrading from Fedora 7 to Fedora 8 with yum
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Fedora 8 has been released so it is time to upgrade once again. First you should go back and upgrade to Fedora 7 if you haven't already. From there it is even easier this time to upgrade. Here are the steps you need to do the upgrade from Fedora 7 to Fedora 8: yum update yum clean all I like to repeated update and clean all a second time to make sure everything got updated Run the following … [Read more...]
Upgrading from FC6 to Fedora 7 with yum
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Now that Fedora 7 has been release it is time to upgrade from that crusty old Fedora Core 6. Note that they have removed the "Core" from the name so a few things have changed with the paths used in yum. Last year I did a post on how to upgrade from FC5 to FC6 and this upgrade happened on the first box I used for that. Before you start see the note after these steps about checking for disk … [Read more...]
Upgrade FC5 to FC6 with yum
January 13, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Now that Fedora Core 6 is available it is time to upgrade those old crusty FC5 installs. To upgrade from FC5 you can follow these steps: You may be able to skip this step but I did a yum update on FC5 first to make sure everything there was up to date and worked before moving to FC6. Do a "yum clean all" to remove all the old yum cruft. Install the fedora-release for Fedora Core 6. Use the rpm … [Read more...]
Upgrade Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 5 with yum
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I recently upgraded a bunch of FC4 (a few FC3) installs to FC5 using yum. It has been a long time since I've tried doing an OS upgrade like this because it used to be pretty painful. I was surprised at how easy it is to do now. There are a few issues to get past but for the most part for fedora core 4 to fedora core 5 you just have to follow a few simple steps: Remove any kernels before … [Read more...]
