On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Jussi Lehtola<jussilehtola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 18:54 -0400, Jim wrote: >> I ran Preupgrade on a X86_64 from FC10 > FC11, it was a flawless upgrade. >> >> And then I did a Preupgrade on a FC10 > FC11 i386 box following the >> Fedora instructions and it turn into a nightmare. >> It upgraded all the packages from FC10 > FC11 except for the kernel, >> after the completion of upgrade I end up with a FC10 boot kernel and >> FC11 packages. >> And it crashed on reboot. >> >> I'm thinking of upgrading another i386 box from FC10 > FC11, but this >> time after doing a "yum clean all" I'm thinking of just upgrading to the >> fedora-release.fc11.i386.rpm's and doing a update . >> >> Is this a good or bad ideal ?? > > It's worked for me so far on a dozen or so systems. > > Just remember to do the upgrade in > a) a screen session > or > b) in the console > as your X session will probably crash during the upgrade. The best is to > go to initlevel 3 (or even 1) and run the upgrade. > -- > Jussi Lehtola > Fedora Project Contributor > jussilehtola@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I just upgraded a F10->F11 box in this fashion. I followed the instructions here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum -- Paul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
