From Fedora Project Wiki

System configuration used in my installation testing as of May 2011

  • Arch: i686
  • Hardware: KVM
  • Installation type: minimal
  • Fedora 13 or 14 fully updated.
  • Network script instead of Networkmanager.
  • Network setup: DHCP / IPv4
  • Postfix and OpenSSH server installed and enabled at boot.
  • Sendmail removed

Automated configuration script

#!/bin/sh
# Author: Athmane Madjoudj <athmanem AT gmail.com>

echo "BOOTPROTO=dhcp" >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
sed -i 's/ONBOOT=no/ONBOOT=yes/' /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
chkconfig network on
chkconfig NetworkManager off
service network restart
yum -y install openssh-server openssh-clients openssh postfix
chkconfig sshd on
chkconfig postfix on
yum -y remove sendmail
yum -y update
reboot

Test results

PreUpgrade from F14 to F15

  • Method: PreUpgrade with preupgrade-cli "Fedora 15 (Lovelock)"
  • Result: PASSED
  • Details:
    • System is booting and halting correctly.
    • Network is working, and the configuration is the same.
    • Postfix and SSHD still running and enabled at boot.

Upgrade from F14 to F15

  • Method: Upgrade with Fedora-15-i386-netinst.iso
  • Result: PASSED
  • Details:
    • System is booting and halting correctly.
    • Network is working, and the configuration is the same.
    • Postfix and SSHD still running and enabled at boot.


PreUpgrade from F13 to F15

Notes: Since F13 use PAE kernel by default, when I preugraded I get the F15 version of PAE kernel, so I've installed kernel package with the following: 

# yum -y install kernel
# edit grub.conf
# reboot
# yum -y remove kernel-PAE
Retrieved from "https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=User:Athmane/Fedora_15_Testing&oldid=238193"