{"id":625,"date":"2015-01-16T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T14:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/~adrian\/posts\/2015-Jan-16-bimini-upgrade.html"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:41:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T20:41:24","slug":"bimini-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/luges\/index.php\/2015\/01\/16\/bimini-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Bimini Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally upgraded my PowerStation from Fedora 18 to Fedora 21. The upgrade went pretty smooth and was not much more than:<\/p>\n<p><code>$ yum --releasever=19 --exclude=yaboot --exclude=kernel distro-sync $ yum --releasever=20 --exclude=yaboot --exclude=kernel distro-sync $ yum --releasever=21 --exclude=yaboot --exclude=kernel distro-sync<\/code><\/p>\n<p>As I was doing the upgrade without console access I did not want to change the bootloader from <code>yaboot<\/code> to <code>grub2<\/code> and I also excluded the kernel. Once I have console access I will also upgrade those packages.<\/p>\n<p>The only difficulty was upgrading from Fedora 20 to Fedora 21 because 32bit packages were dropped from <em>ppc<\/em> and I was not sure if the system would still boot after removing all 32bit packages (<code>yum remove *ppc<\/code>). But it just worked and now I have an up to date 64bit <em>ppc<\/em> Fedora 21 system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally upgraded my PowerStation from Fedora 18 to Fedora 21. The upgrade went pretty smooth and was not much more than: $ yum &#8211;releasever=19 &#8211;exclude=yaboot &#8211;exclude=kernel distro-sync $ yum &#8211;releasever=20 &#8211;exclude=yaboot &#8211;exclude=kernel distro-sync $ yum &#8211;releasever=21 &#8211;exclude=yaboot &#8211;exclude=kernel distro-sync As I was doing the upgrade without console access I did not want to change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-luges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/luges\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/luges\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/luges\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/luges\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/luges\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/luges\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1312,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/luges\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/1312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/luges\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/luges\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisas.de\/luges\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}