[Leaplist] Fedora 11

[Jeff Iddings]

I used their new 'preupgrade' utility. It downloaded all the packages,
rebooted my system and invoked anaconda. It's was mucho cool and went
without any glitches.

On 06/14/2009 12:06 PM, Phil Barnett wrote:
> On 06/14/2009 03:35 AM, Craig "Fuzzy" Conner wrote:
>> Again, rarely has a live upgrade via yum upgrade given me problems.
>> Still, as that page says, "The recommended installation method is with
>> a boot media..." and "...live upgrades are not recommended by the
>> Fedora Project. If you are not prepared to resolve issues on your own
>> if things break, you should probably use the recommend installation
>> methods instead."
>>    
> Recently, the upgrade that went badly for me I would have just done
> another upgrade to it, but when I ran the install/upgrade disk the
> second time, it could not figure out that I had Linux installed and
> didn't offer the upgrade choice. So something vital to figuring out that
> Linux was already installed was missing from the upgraded partition.
> 
> Since I didn't feel like breaking into the code to figure out what it
> was looking for and since there was nothing important on that partition,
> I just went with a format and install. Which worked perfectly.
> 
> But whatever went wrong with the upgrade from 10 to 11 went pretty far
> wrong.
> 


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