How To Upgrade From Fedora 15 To Fedora 16 (Desktop & Server)

Written By
FT
Falko Timme
Nov 10, 2011

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“This article describes how you can upgrade your Fedora 15
system to Fedora 16. The upgrade procedure works for both desktop
and server installations.

“1 Preliminary Note: The commands in this article must be
executed with root privileges. Open a terminal (on a Fedora 15
desktop, go to Applications > System Tools > Terminal) and
log in as root, or if you log in with a regular user, type
su to become root.

“Please make sure that the system that you want to upgrade has
more than 600 MB of RAM – otherwise the system might hang when it
tries to reboot with the following message (leaving you with an
unusable system):

“Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs…”


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