I started with Fedora 11, currently running Fedora 16 x86_64. When I installed 11 I accepted the defaults for partitions, which set up a small partition for preupgrades and took the entire remainder of the disk for /. In a later upgrade my partitions were changed to LVM, making it next to impossible to shrink my / partition. Unfortunately, the Fedora 11 installation set up a partition for preupgrades that is now too small for current versions of Fedora. And I can't get any space from the / partition, so I'm stuck.
In the past I did an upgrade using the DVD instead of preupgrade. No big deal. But today I am trying to upgrade from 16 to 19 and when I boot to the DVD there is no longer a menu option to upgrade an existing installation. There is only "Install Fedora 19." I selected it hoping that it would then provide me with the option to upgrade the existing Fedora 16, but it started producing code in a terminal that looked like it was just going to go ahead and overwrite my existing installation, although it went by too fast to be sure. After a minute or two I hit the power button to halt whatever it was trying to do.
How do I upgrade from 16 to 19 when I can't use preupgrade?
In the past I did an upgrade using the DVD instead of preupgrade. No big deal. But today I am trying to upgrade from 16 to 19 and when I boot to the DVD there is no longer a menu option to upgrade an existing installation. There is only "Install Fedora 19." I selected it hoping that it would then provide me with the option to upgrade the existing Fedora 16, but it started producing code in a terminal that looked like it was just going to go ahead and overwrite my existing installation, although it went by too fast to be sure. After a minute or two I hit the power button to halt whatever it was trying to do.
How do I upgrade from 16 to 19 when I can't use preupgrade?