[Novalug] Getting Fedora 11 to work

American Dave novalug at soupy.org
Sun Oct 25 16:48:02 EDT 2009


On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:16:47AM -0500, Beartooth wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Oct 2009, Charles M Howe wrote:
> 
> > Thos is a new thread. I wrote one message and got a few 
> > replies, but I didn't reply to any of them. [....]
> 
> > Huge embarrassment. While I have no recollection of choosing 
> > one on Oct 10, I must have. If anybody has a suggestion, please 
> > say. But I expect to have to reinstall.[....]
> 
>  	Remember F12 is due out next month. At that point -- or a 
> few days later to let the bandwidth diminish -- you should be 
> able to do a preupgrade, let it complete, and reboot at your 
> convenience -- thus keeping all your tweaks.

Fedora's just not good at upgrading.  10 -> 11 didn't go super well for
me, and even the docs suggest reimaging if it's an option.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq

-A. Dave



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