Upgrading to Fedora Core 6

• Obtain installation CDs for Fedora Core 6, for example from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
• Write down the current network settings of your machine
• If you have worked on your yum.conf and modified it to point to the legacy update servers, it is necessary to:
  • Update your system to the latest versions of the system software using yum.
  • Yum is configured to check encyption keys for the packages it installs, so you need to import the keys before invoking yum.
    rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY
    rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora
    rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-extras
    yum update
  • Reboot your system before continuing with the installation.
• Boot from the CD, choose "Upgrade." Never ever just wipe out a library server!
• Play disk jockey until installation is complete
• Your system will very likely not boot after you are done, instead, you will get a kernel panic - don't panic yourself
• Boot again from the CD and enter "linux rescue "
• Edit the file
  /mnt/sysimage/etc/selinux/config
  using vi and replace "SELINUX=enforcing" by "SELINUX=permissive"
• Reboot by typing "exit" - the box should boot okay, but you will likely not have network
• From the GUI, go to System -> Administration -> Network and change the network settings for eth0 back to "static" with the values you have previously written down (you did that, didn't you?)
• Make sure your network services restart
• We now need to remove some old dependencies:
  yum remove LONCAPA-prerequisites
  yum remove mod_perl_1
  yum remove gnuplot
  yum update
• Now we need to install the new LON-CAPA prerequisites:
  yum install LONCAPA-prerequisites
• Now we need to get the Apache configuration correct:
  mkdir fc6
  cd fc6
  wget http://install.loncapa.org/versions/fedora/6/FC6_install.tar
  tar xf FC6_install.tar
  cd installation
  cp httpd.conf /etc/httpd/conf
• As the last step, upgrade your LON-CAPA version as you normally would. Never ever just wipe out a library server!
• If httpd does not start up on reboot, you might have to
  mv /etc/rc5.d/K15httpd /etc/rc5.d/S15httpd

Oh, before we forget ... what was it again ...? Oh, yes: Never ever just wipe out a library server!