Hey fedora 9 was just released today. I want to upgrade my fedora 8 to fedora 9.. Please tell me that if i upgrade it would my installed packages still be installed and running in fedora 9?? Also is there an online update method for doing an update so that I don't have to download the whole DVD.. Thanx

You use Fedora. Fedora comes with extensive docs. You should read some. Instead of dry steps here's the article Preupgrade - seemless and easy upgrades to Fedora 9 (the actual steps are in the Wiki link in the article).

I tried PreUpgrade that was available in the updates-testing repository, but that version did not contain Fedora 9 as an available update. After searching on Google, it turns out that someone else had the same problem, but had a simple solution.

According to davidnielsen.wordpress.com:

Hi
mine's a small root partition of 8GB and its already full with hardly 150MB of storage space left. I generally use my other partitions for storage purpose. Is there any way by which I could change the download location for all the new packages on the disk?
PreUpgrade would by default download all the update packages on the root partition.

I have the same issue on a newly installed Fedora 9 box. My hard drive is only 30G and let F9 do the automatic partitioning at install. It left a root directory the size of 7.7G.

After installing packages and what not over the past few weeks, I eventually got a message that the box was running out of storage space in the root partition. After running a yum clean all, the Use% is 97% on /. Which is very close to nothing. I hope the answer is not to reinstall F9 all over again. I do have plenty of space left on the home dir: 18G. Hopefully someone can point us to a descent solution.

[root@redtac ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 7.7G 7.2G 117M 99% /
/dev/sda5 19G 257M 18G 2% /home
/dev/sda1 99M 18M 77M 19% /boot
tmpfs 379M 48K 379M 1% /dev/shm

[root@redtac ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 30.7 GB, 30738677760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3737 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1cbc850e

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 1033 8193150 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 1034 1224 1534207+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 1225 3737 20185672+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1225 3737 20185641 83 Linux

[root@redtac ~]#


Much Thanks!