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chebe ([personal profile] chebe) wrote2011-06-25 07:48 pm
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Fedora 15 upgrade

I seem to only upgrade in the Summer, you know, not in the middle of term. First OS on this netbook was Fedora 11. Then Fedora 13, which after trying a few things I had to install from the full DVD (I have an odd wireless chipset). Then, recently I upgraded from 13, to 15, inside Fedora. It seemed to go well at first... until it lost my wireless card. This and that kept messing up and to be completely honest, I'm holding a grudge against Gnome 3 for being different, but I'm slowing coming around. So, to hell with it all, said I. Backed up my data, then burned a copy of the full installation DVD again, plugged in the external DVD-drive, and let rip. It took hours and hours to get it back to where I was (repos, specific programs, old data I still needed, etc). But it all went surprisingly smoothly. Only one hiccup was with VirtualBox. Basically, it was installing, but not properly, so I couldn't actually run any VMs. The error, and various solutions are described here. What worked for me boiled down to;
yum groupinstall "Development Tools" (It wouldn't let me choose multiple profiles at install time so I choose Graphical Desktop)

yum install dkms
yum install kernel-PAE-devel
And then;
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

The future is pretty. And now, to make sure every thing else works *crosses fingers*

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