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Upgrade to Fedora 18 from fedora 17

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – Dear Friends, My notebook and desktop run perfectly on dual systems: Win7 and fedora 17. As I follow the installation procedure suggested by the redhat / earlier fedora system, both my machines have the separated and cleared partitions; for windows, boot, swap and boot partition. Previously, If I wanted to upgrade I just made a fresh installation to the machine which run on windows. Since fedora 18 is 'quite different' from the previous version, ANY ADVISE IF I want to upgrade from fedora 17 to fedora 18 without making any major changes on the disc partitions. All your opinions are (HowTos)

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Submitted by leex on 02/03/2013

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Hey guys,

First post =), anyways id like to format my laptop and upgrade from BT5R2/win7 to Fedora 17/BT5R2.

First question is what to install first fedora or BT? Do i need separate swap partitions or can they share one? How do i add the second installation in grub? eg lets say i install F17 on one partition and BT5R2 on the other how do i edit grub?

fedora 12 install dvd 3 years 25 weeks ago

hi guys,,, i have a question here,

I already have centos5.5 on my system whose hard disk is ~500GB. I have tried to dual boot with fedora 16. while installing fedora 16 I have created a ~250GB and ~4GB partitions for "/" and swap. The installation has gone pretty smoothly until a error at the end said that installing bootloader has been unsuccessful.

I'm trying to install Fedora 17 into a Windows 8 UEFI system from a DVD from a Fedora 17 iso.

I've set up Swap & /boot as ordinary partitions and /, /var & /home in a LVM physical volume - using the Fedora 17 partitioning system.

I just switched from Fedora 16 to 18 (not an upgrade but a clean install). Previously in Fedora 16, I had no problems doing a Fedora 16 and Windows 7 dual boot in EFI mode. Grub Legacy (EFI version) worked perfectly. Now with Grub2 (EFI) there seems to be no working chainloader command.

I can still boot Windows if I go into the BIOS boot menu and select it.

Fedora 17 Grub Woes 39 weeks 6 days ago

I did a fresh intall of Fedora17 64bit on a dual boot system with vista. The installation was fine. Grub boot menu takes unusally long time to showup. Re installed Fedora 16 64 bit, the grub bootmenu showed up fast.

Probalby grub2 is the culprit after the installation of Fedora17. So tried upgrade from Fedora 16 to 17 without boot configuration update option during the installation.