You may want to read the following notes from the author of yum author about upgrading from Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2: http://linux.duke.edu/~skvidal/misc/fc1-fc2-yum-hints.txt

Here are the steps I used to upgrade a system from Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 2:

Here are the steps I used to upgrade a system to Fedora Core 1:

Here are the steps I used to upgrade a Red Hat Linux 8.0 system to Red Hat Linux 9. To upgrade to a different version, download an appropriate redhat-release package:

The following are some problems I ran into with the upgrade from 8.0 to 9.

Problem:

Resolving dependencies
package apt needs librpm-4.1.so (not provided)
package apt needs librpmdb-4.1.so (not provided)
package apt needs librpmio-4.1.so (not provided)
package apt needs libelf.so.0 (not provided)

Solution: rpm -e apt (I will use yum instead of apt for rpm for package management; I could always manually reinstall apt for rpm after the upgrade)

Problem:

Resolving dependencies
.......identical dependency loop exceeded
package gnome-vfs2 needs gnome-mime-data >= 2.0.0-11 (not provided)

Solution: yum remove gnome-vfs2 (this will remove several packages; you may manually reinstall these after the upgrade if necessary)

Problem: after rebooting into the new kernel, my eth0 network interface was brought up with a static address and then with dhcp. During the upgrade process, the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.dhcp was created. You may want to check /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts for any changes prior to rebooting after the upgrade.

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Last modified: 06/03/2004

http://linux.duke.edu/%7Eskvidal/misc/fc1-fc2-yum-hints.txt

There are certain things only anaconda can do. There is no other way around it. If you're using LVM stop reading and know that you must use anaconda to do this upgrade.

In general, if you're not cramped for space/time/something you should use anaconda to upgrade. You'll find you come out with a much more reliable upgrade process and much less pain. However, if you'd like to try to upgrade the whole system via yum you should follow these instructions.

Before you start it would be a good idea to do the following:

Another option for upgrading is this:
run:
 yum upgrade yum python rpm-python rpm glibc glibc-common \
             redhat-config-\* XFree86\* libxml2\*

This will upgrade a number of critical packages first and helps create a
safe(r) environment for yum to upgrade.

   After this finishes continue with the rest of the instructions.
[END OPTIONAL]

If yum appears to stall out after: Test transaction complete, Success!

That is due to a test run for diskspace. It is doing things here but nothing that reports in any meaningful way until it is done. Sorry about that. It's something I intend to correct.

After the upgrade completes you may find yum exits unhappily when it goes to make the new kernel the system default. Don't worry about this - it's not a big deal. It may or may not happen depending on how your system was patched, or not, as the case may be.

After you've finished the upgrade you should run: /usr/sbin/fix-mouse-psaux to update the system for the 2.6 kernel input layer.

Reboot your system, make sure the 2.6 kernel is selected from grub when your system boots. If it isn't you should edit your /etc/grub.conf and change the default= to point to this kernel(typically default=0)

Hope this helps, if you encounter tracebacks file them at bugzilla.redhat.com and I'll take a look.

documented on: 2004.06.16