FC1 to F18

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This is my adventure of installing Fedora Core 1 and then upgrading it through every version up to Fedora 18.

Why?

Because.

Installing Fedora Core 1

• Codename: Yarrow
• Released: November 6, 2003
• Kernel: 2.4.19

This proved a little challenging. I opted to use a virtual machine as I didn't have any hardware old enough to support it. I used a Fedora 18 machine to do the install. The installation was done using a 50 GiB image file for storage and connected to the standard libvirtd Default network. The actual install of the OS was done as a Desktop system with default packages. The network used an emulated rtl8139 network card.

The biggest trick was to get the installer detect the CD-ROM and disk. In the end, I had to emulate a SCSI bus for both. I couldn't get virt-manager to set the options, so I had to use the virt-install command line tools. The installation was kicked off with the following command;

virt-install --connect=qemu:///system -n \
  FedoraUpgradeTest --ram 512 \
  --vcpus 2 \
  --disk path=/mnt/usb/ISOs/Fedora/Core1/yarrow-x86_64-disc1.iso,device=cdrom,bus=scsi \
  --os-type=linux \
  --disk path=/mnt/usb/VMs/FedoraUpgradeTest.img,device=disk,bus=scsi \
  --network network=default,model=rtl8139 \
  -v

Install

Installation of Fedora Core 1 begins!	I'd actually like this screen back...
Basic desktop install.	Only real change from stock is that I disabled the firewall.
After "swapping" CD 1 for CD 2, install completed!	First-boot has been around from the beginning.
Login screen.	Le desktop!

Some fun issues;

• On first reboot, the OS tried to boot off of the SMP kernel and immediately fell back to the boot loader. The UP kernel booted though.
• Opening Mozilla v1.4.1 and clicking on the "Red Hat, Inc." bookmark crashed the browser, but the "Red Hat Network" bookmark worked... Sort of.
• Our own website didn't crash, but I can't say it degraded too gracefully, either. Our AN!Wiki actually rendered quite well, so kudos to the MediaWiki devs! Our RoundCube webmail didn't crash, but it did refuse to run.

Some Apps

The GIMP v1.2.5	Preferences screen
Mozilla v1.4.1	Default webpage
Red Hat, Inc. website crashed the browser. The Red Hat Network didn't crash, but didn't degrade well, either.	... Not that we can brag much, either. Our Joomla page didn't degrade very well, either.
... At least the text could be read when you scrolled down a page or three.	MediaWiki degraded amazingly well!
RoundCube webmail doesn't work, but it tells you so instead of just blowing up.	Who remembers how awesome this screensaver was back in the day?
Default desktop install fits into 2.0 GiB.	One of the gnome menus expanded

Fedora Core 2

• Codename: Tettnang
• Released; May 18, 2004
• Kernel: 2.6.5

The upgrade was done by booting off of the installation DVD ISO.

The upgrade itself was painless.

Upgrade

Shutting down FC1

Shutting down FC1

 

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